There's a pricing pdf here: http://www.vmware.com/products/vi/vc/vmotion.html#_tabbuy
Infrastructure 3 Enterprise, which is $5,750 includes VMotion Other than that, I don't know how much it costs to add it to standard or starter ***************** Ken Ferguson 214.636.6126 ***************** Rick Faircloth wrote: > Apparently, VMotion is not free, even with the "Starter" edition of VMWare. > > I couldn't find a price for VMotion as an add-on to the "Starter" edition of > VMWare... > any idea how much it is? > > 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:246572 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
