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Troubleshooting ESX host not responding using vmware checklists.

VMware KB

Could not find a valid datastore on host xx.xx.xx.xx.

Usually this is caused by insufficient storage space in the ESX hosts. To solve this, you need to increase the storage for the ESX hosts.

Vmware Workstation detected your processor speed is 2527 MHz but your Windows reported as 2535 MHz. This may cause your time clock not to be synchronized properly. This problem on some host computers with Intel SpeedStep, AMD Cool ‘n’ Quiet, or other similar power-saving technologies.

Please go to Vmware Knowledge Base for solution

Workaroud:

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From VMware documentation, the limits are

• ESX/ESXi 4.0 can support up to 1TB of RAM
• ESX/ESXi 4.0 can support up to 64 logical CPUs
• ESX/ESXi 4.0 can support up to 512 Virtual CPUs per host
• ESX/ESXi 4.0 can support up to 320 virtual machines per host

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I believe many people have the same questions. Which one is the best free virtualization out there?

I did not include the Vmware Workstation because it is not free. Based on my experience working with all the virtualization software, my personal opinion would be the Sun VirtualBox. I got hooked up with it when I was trying to virtualize Solaris 10.

At that time, I was undecided to go to which direction for my career path. There was a vacancy as Unix expert in Sun platform which means that I have to work with Sun Solaris and its Sun Storage too.

I have installed Vmware server 2.0 but it always made my computer slow. The response was not so fast.

Then, I tried virtualbox, the installation steps were about the same as vmware server. After setting up all the guest OS, it was getting very smooth and fast response.

Virtual PC 2009 is good for Windows systems. Other than  that, it is not supported well.