vmware esxi instead of vmware server

[Jeremy Cothran]

Dan Ramage pointed me to the following article http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/09/06/02/0043258/When-VMware-Performance-Fails-Try-BSD-Jails?art_pos=12 which points out a variety of opinions comparing various virtualization issues - one point that is highlighted by the opinions is the use in regards to vmware products of the free 'ESXi' product instead of 'vmware server', the main difference being that 'ESXi' runs directly on the server(bare-metal) and does not suffer some of the performance penalties associated with running on a host OS(Operating System).  I'll try the 'ESXi' install at some point and glad to hear any feedback in regards to running 'ESXi' instead of 'vmware server' in regards to server virtualization.

Thanks

Jeremy

http://www.vmware.com/products/esxi/