Anyone here use the latest VMWare?
I dont know how your production environments work, but VMWare has really stepped up its game. It can take a live server box with all hardware and basically create a ghost image of that server along with the HAL and is then able to run on a server machine that is a dedicated VMWARE server. Once booted it looks just like your old server hardware/software etc. It is pretty amazing how it knows to use the old hardware specs of the machine and duplicates it with software.
A company I do contract work for uses a server with 48GB of memory as a VMWare server and is getting away from using multiple hardware servers. It is amazing how quick/easy it works too. The only current bottleneck is the VMWare servers network card. However even with 12 VM servers currently running off of it in a high production hospital it hasnt seemed to tax the nic yet. I just wanted to share my .02 cents just incase anyone was looking to downsize on hardware.
A company I do contract work for uses a server with 48GB of memory as a VMWare server and is getting away from using multiple hardware servers. It is amazing how quick/easy it works too. The only current bottleneck is the VMWare servers network card. However even with 12 VM servers currently running off of it in a high production hospital it hasnt seemed to tax the nic yet. I just wanted to share my .02 cents just incase anyone was looking to downsize on hardware.
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JDMurray
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Yup, virtualization technology is very popular in online gaming systems too for the reasons that you mentioned. Thousands of users playing in virtual machines on a single server. It's really an amazing technology. -
buchatech
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Yes I have noticed that VmWare has stepped up their solutions. They also have Vmware Server free for download. I use it here to run several versions of the same application on the same PC with having conflicts. Great tool with many uses.My Blog: http://www.buchatech.com -
JDMurray
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Because of VMWare's aggressive marketing, Microsoft has released a free version of their Virtual PC 2007 virtualization software too.