Oh, an incidentally, Oracle appears to not officially support their stuff running in any VM other than their own...
Take that FWIW. -sc From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:27 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Windows x64 under ESX Good to know. Do the tools not run properly in WoW64 or is it that they aren't "officially supported"? Jeff On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Steven M. Caesare <scaes...@caesare.com> wrote: We occasionally run in to some "support" issues on 64bit stuff. And some vendors *cough*oracle*cough* seem to have a hard time getting many of their support tools updated to run and be supported in WoW64 L But I think we've only built one 32bit VM in the last couple of years... -sc From: Jeff Bunting [mailto:bunting.j...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Windows x64 under ESX We have a couple of templates set up to quickly create Win 2003 VMs (Standard or Enterprise). It occurred to me, is there any reason to use the 32bit flavor any more? We're still on ESX 3.5, which supports 64bit. Are there any downsides I haven't considered? Drivers shouldn't be an issue on a VM, and I'm not aware of any application compatibility issues. Jeff ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
