This sounds like the ultimate system cloning tool! It clones a system and all settings, state, etc, without any downtime. I see a migration can be scheduled and executed unattended, too...that's great.
Does the original OS on the original hardware remain intact and operating as a migration takes place? I could see running a migration to an identical server each night or even multiple times per day as a backup system for an entire server. Is the entire OS, all files and databases, migrated as well or would they have to point to a third server which remains intact for data access? Rick -----Original Message----- From: Ken Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 11:10 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Microsoft Virtual PC / Should I be interested, or not? With VMWare's VMotion, you can move an instance of a Windows server from one physical machine to another without anybody having any clue that you did it! That is the definition of cool. http://www.vmware.com/products/vi/vc/vmotion.html ***************** Ken Ferguson 214.636.6126 ***************** Burns, John D wrote: > 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:246564 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
