I'm running an VMware ESXi 5.0 server at home with a couple of servers: * File server (ie. downloading server) * Web server * DVR server (with DVB-S capture cards) * Media server (transcoding ...

On Debian at least you have renamed monetdb5-sql to monetdb-sql. This includes the service configuration file /etc/default/monetdb5-sql becoming /etc/default/monetdb-sql.