Posted by: thapap September 11, 2009
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i believe if you go down to ESX-3.0/ESX-3.2/3.5 you will have everything you need.
unless you go for vanilla vmware server and client setup all of the VMWARE *** are tweaked version of standard release for optimal performance of EMC storages.
for example ESX 3.X series of releases are for the optimal performance of clariion series of their storage.
ESX 2.X series were for Symmetrix DMX.
i am not saying that ESX 3.X will not work with Symmetrix DMX.
what i believe can be done is to get the plain vanilla version of vmware server and client.
so basically when createting a new vm you can specify what you want.
--create <vm name> <image name>
[--hostname <hostname>] [--size <size>]
[--ram <size>] [--cpus <count>]
[--netboot]
creating vm is not the big problem in your case but rather to map the vms to the cpu's and ram locations.