Hi All, Our VMware experience so far is:
We got a HP workstation with intel Xeon quad core processor and 8gb ram. Put in a couple of 10k spin speed SATA mirrored disks and loaded XP 64 bit onto it and VMware. We had a windows RDP server and a DOS terminal server and one of these licences is linked to the hardware, so if it goes down you have to buy another licence. That was one of the major reasons for looking at virtualisation. Testing we did was creating 21 RDP sessions with light usage and about 15 DOS terminal sessions which open our FPD 2.6 accounting app (Pegasus Opera). With all these loaded the processor usage of the main machine did not go over 65%, which is pretty impressive. We don't think this machine would do more than about 4 VM's. We currently have 3 machines virtualised. One is the print/email Fox app that used to sit on the computer next to me and serve jobs in a queue. Our main Foxpro app usually just puts jobs in a queue for this app to process. Had this machine gone down I could have got another machine to do that same thing in a couple of hours installing all the printers and setting it up exactly the same way. Now we have it virtualised we can run it from several places and with it being backed up we can restore it and be up and running in no time. The app has been running for about a week now no problem. Anyone else with some virtualisation experience that would like to share? Cheers Peter ---------------------------------------------------------------- Rajan Imports has changed - we are now Whispering Smith Ltd. For more information see our website at www.whisperingsmith.com Please update your address book with my new email address: [email protected] . This communication is intended for the person or organisation to whom it is addressed. The contents are confidential and may be protected in law. Unauthorised use, copying or disclosure of any of it may be unlawful. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by telephone or email. www.whisperingsmith.com Whispering Smith Ltd Head Office:61 Great Ducie Street, Manchester M3 1RR. Tel:0161 831 3700 Fax:0161 831 3715 London Office:17-19 Foley Street, London W1W 6DW Tel:0207 299 7960 _______________________________________________ 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.
