VMware ESX3i is VMware’s new ESX options which provides a much lighter package for deploying ESX.

Over at happyrouter.com, they have a little video that show you how to virtualize ESX3i inside VMware workstation so you can play around with it a little. The video can be found here.

This is basically called VMware in a box solution, which lets your run multiple ESX servers on top of VMware workstation. You can also setup some shared ISCSI storage through a virtual implementation of OpenFiler. Right now I have a cluster of two ESX hosts running, and it’s running great. I’d like to run more, but I need to order more RAM! Obviously this solution is just for a testing or learning type of environment.

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