On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Peter Cushing < [email protected]> wrote:
> > Gilbert M. Hale wrote: > > Greetings! > > > > > > > > For anyone interested in virtualization for running multiple concurrent > > machines on a host system, this is for you! Anyone else is invited to > read > > and store the info for later. I am hoping to fend off grief for folks > > seeking virtual Nirvana. > > > > <Snip> > > > > Very interesting Gil, > > We've been doing a bit of virtualisation here. Well actually my boss > has been doing most of it and I've just stood there looking interested :-) > > We liked the idea of being independent of the hardware so that if it > fails we can get up and running very quickly. We have virtualised a few > servers using Vmware including my back office VFP app which prints and > emails jobs all day. We don't think that ESXi is the way to go for us > as the hardware has to be a lot more specific to be able to run that > OS. We want to be able to run the VM stuff on any half decent machine > and be up and running quickly. You were saying you got lucky with your > hardware but we don't want to take any chances. My boss also thinks the > extra complexity of handling the OS layer makes it more difficult to > support in a small IT department like ours. > ---------------------- We are going to look into virtualization as well. Costs are so high that we probably won't do it. Looking at taking SS for a variety of clients and putting small ones on a virtual machine instead of the little mini servers we have for each one. Takes 8 underused boxes into one Mega server, 16 cpu 32 gig ram to start maybe jacked up to 64 gig? All data will be stored on a SAN or a killer raid that is fiber connected. The high end VMWare is costly but it allows us to really get the control between the virtual machines with respect to SQL Server. Putting dbs int 2008 all us to throttle various process and back off on the little stuff like log shipping. Why are others looking into virtual? $$ or copy paste to new device? -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer SQL Server DBA Web and Winform Development Independent Contractor Memphis TN 901.246-0159 --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
