{"id":8582,"date":"2006-10-04T19:34:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8582"},"modified":"2006-10-04T19:34:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"vmware-esx-64bit-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8582","title":{"rendered":"VMware ESX 64bit Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VMware <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/vmtn\/blog\/sherrod\/2006-10\/#64bit\">announced on their 64bit blog<\/a> that VMware ESX 3.0.1 will offer full support for a range of 64 bit gues operating systems.\u00a0 64 bit computing is set to gain wider acceptance and in some cases become a requirement.\u00a0 The following operating systems will have 64 bit support:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Standard and Enterprise Server R2) <\/li>\n<li>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 64-bit (UP7, UP8) <\/li>\n<li>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 64-bit (UP2, UP3) <\/li>\n<li>SuSE Linux Server (SLES) 10 64-bit <\/li>\n<li>Sun Solaris 10 (U2) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hardware requirements will be as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AMD: Athlon64 or Opteron Rev E or later<\/li>\n<li>Intel: must include support for Intel&#8217;s Virtualization Technology (needs to be enabled in the BIOS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>64 bit computing will be especially important in the Microsoft world.\u00a0 Microsoft has decided to only release a 64bit edition of Exchange 2007.<\/p>\n<p>WMware ESX is the market leader in enterprise level virtualisation.\u00a0 ESX offers the ability to deploy many virtual machines across a farm of servers with load balancing and disaster recovery while providing a near physical machine level of performance.\u00a0 ESX is a key technology for consolidating servers and making full use of the processing power that otherwise would be underutilised by many of the business applications that are typically deployed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VMware announced on their 64bit blog that VMware ESX 3.0.1 will offer full support for a range of 64 bit gues operating systems.\u00a0 64 bit computing is set to gain wider acceptance and in some cases become a requirement.\u00a0 The following operating systems will have 64 bit support: Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (Standard and Enterprise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=8582\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VMware ESX 64bit Support&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}