I have kind of a stupid question. Are people using these VM servers for production use? I've heard of people buying one top of the line piece of hardware and run multiple production servers on it using VM. This just scares me because it seems like one more point of possible failure, possible performance losses, etc. Am I just being antsy of a new thing or is this really not a good practice for production? I can definitely see the value in development environments but I'm not sure about production. Do the VMs have much overhead to them? Are there security and/or performance concerns that need to be taken into consideration? Obviously there's the "don't put all your eggs in one basket" thing with the hardware but if proper precautions are taken for redundancy and such is it really a viable solution? Also, how would all of this work when you get into clustering and such? Would you cluster each VM to the other VMs and then leave the base OS that all the VMs are running on alone and not cluster/replicate them? Any experience or knowledge you can lend would be awesome.
John Burns -----Original Message----- From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 10:14 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not? Ken, have you used MS's Virtual PC? I have no experience with either, so would be interested in how they compare for ease-of-use... Rick -----Original Message----- From: Ken Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 9:34 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not? "...free version of VMWare." Which is absolutely incredible. I've been playing with the free VMWare player and server for the last few days and, DAMN! That is freakin' cool!!! http://www.vmware.com/products/free_virtualization.html ***************** Ken Ferguson 214.636.6126 ***************** Bobby Hartsfield wrote: > I'm sure Microsoft's recent change of heart has something to do with a > free version of vmware. > > They are great ways to test the impact of software updates and try > things without causing any damage to your main installation though. > > ..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. > Bobby Hartsfield > http://acoderslife.com > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Faircloth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 7:56 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: OT: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not? > > So I get this email that MS has released Virtual PC for free. > > Not having used Virtual PC or anything like it, I have to ask.are any > of you using Virtual PC or something similar in you CF work? > > Other ways? Should I bother? > > Rick > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:4/messageid:246552 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
