Sort of Off Topic (RBASE-L) but in a follow up to how powerful VM Ware is, They now have VM Sphere which btw you can use for Free. VM Sphere allows you to have completely independent Servers running on ONE host machine. There is no limit on the number of "Servers" you can have on one Sphere machine, and you can have each server running a different O/S type like Win 2008 Server, and Win 2003 Server. Your only limit is how powerful your hardware is.. Currently I have 8 Servers here that all have different roles for different locations, ie, Web, Exchange, Database, Terminal Server, etc.. Just recently I bought a really extra big and powerful server hardware (Extra drives, memory, cpu's etc) and I installed the Sphere on the machine, I now have 2 servers on that one machine all running completely independent and my network sees them as 2 separate boxes. Less space and maintenance is great, downfall is if there is a hardware failure, you have multiple servers down, but that is where having an Axcient Server running comes in, it is mirroring the servers and if one (or more fails) it takes over with little interruption, plus get yourself a Hardware Maintenance contract with 4 hour response time (HP & IBM) and the issue becomes blunted. VM Ware and Sphere are worth everyone taking a look at if you are supporting many different clients with all different O/S's. You can set up a new VM Sphere and Session that has the settings that match the environment of every client you have, thus reducing the "it worked fine on my machine, not sure why it does not on yours"
n Frank Frank Taylor - Information Technology Administrator F.J. O'Hara & Sons, Inc - Araho Transfer Inc. Boston, MA - Rockland, ME - Miami, FL Direct Dial - 617-790-3093 email: [email protected]<http://mail.whitewolftechnologies.com/cgi-bin/compose.exe?id=01ef7f9322f8a76400dacb6a1fe342bb5a7&new=&xsl=compose.xsl&[email protected]> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lawrence Lustig Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 8:25 AM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: OT: 64 bit OS << I forgot about being able to partition (sorry, old school) and run different OS versions on the machine. >> When people talk about running Virtual Machines they are not referring to partioning the hard disk and choosing to boot up one version or another. Instead, they're talking about always booting to Windows 7 and then electing to run one or more different operating systems as virtual machines. These are simultaneous sessions that run "in a window" on your Windows 7 desktop. You can think of them as remote desktop sessions except that the remote computer is created (in software) inside the memory of your own computer. It's a powerful and extremely cool technology with many important applications. I would personally consider it overkill if your only need was to run R:Base for DOS. For that, I'd just use a 32 bit version of Windows that can still run the old DOS software,. -- Larry
