Hi John, Why start worrying about crossing me now?
I have just been deploying stuff in VSphere, have VM on my laptop, and have been dealing with VMs for way too long (starting with IBM CMS either early 90s or 80s can't remember when). I am by no means a VM expert, but I am familiar with them nonetheless. I am an expert at diagnosing issues, spent 13 years at a University doing just that. VMs have a tendency to do odd things that throw errors that look like something else has happened when they have really just had a Rob Ford moment. Yes VMs rule the world, they are sitting up in the clouds and occasionally create their own rain storms for no compelling reason. That is the diagnostic problem: if something impossible just happened, or at least what appears to be impossible on a physical machine, it is probably VM machine restart or Service restart on a VM machine. One could argue that any OS is really a VM on the machine language. Each layer of distance from the physical machine will always introduce potential issues, so the closer you stay to machine level the faster and more efficient and less prone to errors it will be, look at any real time system. But I digress. As always it is a balancing act, cost versus reliability etc. etc. Dan -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Baker Sent: August 21, 2014 2:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Run Process fails without error message Without wishing to get off topic or 'cross' Dan, VMs rule the world now-a-days. In some organisations, you don't get a desktop, you get one or more VMs and if you want to work in an office, you sit down to a almost dumb workstation and connect to your chosen VM. I've seen really forward thinking organisations where, if you want a new VM ("I fancy trying AR System X.Y"), you go to a web page, select the requirements (512Gb if you want ITSM, 1Gb for pure AR System :-), press a button, make a tea and take delivery of a new server. ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
