Re: Vmware and CF 8+
Correct - ESXi only supports two processors, neither of the relatively cheap SMB packages support more than two procs either (i'm in the midst of doing this myself...but with a dual proc machine). Microsoft hyper-V does not have this limitation (although in general it seems VMware is favored over MS - biggest problem with hyper-v is that service packs and critical fixes that require a reboot of the underlying OS means you have to reboot however many VM's are running on your box too). Would it make sense to do this? Absolutely! Several months ago we began consolidating some of our older servers on to a Dell 2950 with 32GB and lots of RAIDed hard drive space. We installed VMware ESXi on the base machine and then copied the ISO images for our server installs. We use vSphere to manage it remotely. It doesn't have all of the features of the paid VMware solutions, but it's enough to run a bunch of virtual machines which all hum along nicely without any trouble. I believe that ESXi only supports two processors though, so you likely wouldn't be able to take full advantage with the free version. -Justin Scott ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:337211 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Flex/Coldfusion Open source projects
Hi All - What are the best active projects in Flex, Coldfusion or both. I am good in Coldfusion, but I never got a chance to work in advanced topics. Also, I am very interested in learning Flex and I want to learn by contributing to existing projects. Also, it would be great if anyone can suggest a project with flex for front end and coldfusion as backend Thanks, ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:337212 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Vmware and CF 8+
I think ESXi supports more processors now in vSphere 4.1 that was released back in July. I would send a tweet to @VMwareCares on Monday, Rick Blythe who runs that account can help you out on a lot of your VMware Tech questions. If you don't get the results there, send me an email lkilpatr...@vmware.com or post your question on the VMware Communities, there are many people there that can answer your questions too. Here are a few links that might help you out. http://communities.vmware.com/home.jspa - VMware Community http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php - Compatibility Guide http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_41_new_feat.html - New Features in vSphere 4.1 Hope this helps, Luke Kilpatrick Social Media Producer VMware, Inc. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:337213 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Vmware and CF 8+
You could also take a look at the long-standing and well supported open source Xen solution for virtualization: http://www.xen.org/ Cheers, Judah On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Luke Kilpatrick l...@lukek.ca wrote: I think ESXi supports more processors now in vSphere 4.1 that was released back in July. I would send a tweet to @VMwareCares on Monday, Rick Blythe who runs that account can help you out on a lot of your VMware Tech questions. If you don't get the results there, send me an email lkilpatr...@vmware.com or post your question on the VMware Communities, there are many people there that can answer your questions too. Here are a few links that might help you out. http://communities.vmware.com/home.jspa - VMware Community http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php - Compatibility Guide http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_41_new_feat.html - New Features in vSphere 4.1 Hope this helps, Luke Kilpatrick Social Media Producer VMware, Inc. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:337214 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: Vmware and CF 8+
biggest problem with hyper-v is that service packs and critical fixes that require a reboot of the underlying OS means you have to reboot however many VM's are running on your box too). I use ESXi myself, and to be fair to Microsoft, when a critical patch for ESXi is release it requires the same process (shut down the VMs and reboot the hypervisor). Since I deployed ESXi there has been one patch I needed to install and that was four months ago. Most of the patches that come out are related to the CLI which ESXi doesn't ship with, so they're not relevant. -Justin ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:337215 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Vmware and CF 8+
yep you are correct (I could swear I just looked at this page, but whatever:) http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/buy/small_business_editions_comparison.html however, strangely, both of the SBS solutions do limit you to 2 procs/server...which is a bit odd - considering you are going from a free to a paid product! Which means if you want free...no problem, if you want to add say...vMotion for under 5 figures with a 4 proc machine you are out of luck... the whole back and forth between MS and VMware will be good for all of us though as it'll drive features down the chain:) I think ESXi supports more processors now in vSphere 4.1 that was released back in July. I would send a tweet to @VMwareCares on Monday, Rick Blythe who runs that account can help you out on a lot of your VMware Tech questions. If you don't get the results there, send me an email lkilpatr...@vmware.com or post your question on the VMware Communities, there are many people there that can answer your questions too. Here are a few links that might help you out. http://communities.vmware.com/home.jspa - VMware Community http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php - Compatibility Guide http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_41_new_feat.html - New Features in vSphere 4.1 Hope this helps, Luke Kilpatrick Social Media Producer VMware, Inc. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:337216 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Vmware and CF 8+
true...I knew that, I think I meant more that nearly every month MS has at least one patch that requiresa reboot, rarely do I go through a patch tuesday without some critical fix... I saw a timeline somewhere where there are far more patches that require rebooting on the MS side - which is only to be expected as it's a full blown OS running there...as opposed to a stripped down kernel, just running what needs to be run for the one function. biggest problem with hyper-v is that service packs and critical fixes that require a reboot of the underlying OS means you have to reboot however many VM's are running on your box too). I use ESXi myself, and to be fair to Microsoft, when a critical patch for ESXi is release it requires the same process (shut down the VMs and reboot the hypervisor). Since I deployed ESXi there has been one patch I needed to install and that was four months ago. Most of the patches that come out are related to the CLI which ESXi doesn't ship with, so they're not relevant. -Justin ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:337217 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: Flex/Coldfusion Open source projects
RIAforge.org has loads of projects based around Adobe products: ColdFusion, Flex, Photoshop, etc. CFLib.org has a large number of single serving functions and that sort of thing. andy -Original Message- From: fun and learning [mailto:funandlrnn...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 4:39 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Flex/Coldfusion Open source projects Hi All - What are the best active projects in Flex, Coldfusion or both. I am good in Coldfusion, but I never got a chance to work in advanced topics. Also, I am very interested in learning Flex and I want to learn by contributing to existing projects. Also, it would be great if anyone can suggest a project with flex for front end and coldfusion as backend Thanks, ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:337218 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Is there a way to force lock release on Access database? (CF9)
Lots of people have suggested similar things - cause an error when running a query on the access database, which will break the lock. Maureen also suggested deleting the ldb file. That's the file that creates the lock and it cant be deleted.It gets deleted when the system lets go of the This is old news, I'm afraid. It dates back to CF5. Since the MX era, that no longer works. However I have found that in CF9 the lock remains on the access database only as long as the datasource is being used. When the process using the database is completed, the lock is removed automatically.The reason I never noticed this before is that I have been trying to open a zip file, copy the file to the \db folder where it can be used as a datasource, update it, then put the access database file back into the zip file and delete the file i was working on. I was trying to do it all in the same page. Now it seems I have to put the process into two separate steps. I have to allow ColdFusion to disconnect from the datasource first, THEN attempt to delete the mdb file.I have been experimenting with CFThread as a way of accomplishing this but its a bit obscure to me yet. More study required.Or alternatively, two separate .cfm files completely, with the second one being triggered separately to the first. If anyone has any suggestions as to how i should do this, I'd be most grateful. Currently I'm thinking one of the following : [A] A single .cfm file calling separate threads. This has the advantage of the whole process in a single file, but will only work if the datasource is released after that thread completes processing. [B] A single .cfm file, calling the actions that require the database in a custom tag. But again, that will only work if the datasource is released after the tag completes processing. [C] two separate .cfm files, and one triggered after the first completes processing. Perhaps by a third .cfm file controlling both of the others. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion 9 Enterprise, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 2:52 AM, Kris Jones kris.jon...@verizon.net wrote: It's not elegant, but I've found that throwing an error on the datasource works for releasing them. Try a query against the dsn for a table that doesn't exist. Cheers, Kris Try deleting the .ldb file. On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Mike Kear afpwebwo...@gmail.com wrote: I have to make an Access database containing updated data from my SQLServer database, which can be downloaded by my users by FTP. I can make the Access database a coldfusion datasource, and fill it up with the data I want, but I need to release it from the lock ColdFusion puts on it. Does anyone have a technique for releasing that lock nowdays? (I'm using CF9 Enter ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:337219 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Vmware and CF 8+
This is true if you blindly install every patch released by MS, but that is a poor patch management strategy to say the least. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software Sent from my Droid On Sep 19, 2010 4:59 PM, Chris Kelly juggler...@gmail.com wrote: true...I knew that, I think I meant more that nearly every month MS has at least one patch that requiresa reboot, rarely do I go through a patch tuesday without some critical fix... I saw a timeline somewhere where there are far more patches that require rebooting on the MS side - which is only to be expected as it's a full blown OS running there...as opposed to a stripped down kernel, just running what needs to be run for the one function. biggest problem with hyper-v is that service packs and critical fixes that require a reboot of the underlying OS means you have to reboot however many VM's are running on your box too). I use ESXi myself, and to be fair to Microsoft, when a critical patch for ESXi is release it requires the same process (shut down the VMs and reboot the hypervisor). Since I deployed ESXi there has been one patch I needed to install and that was four months ago. Most of the patches that come out are related to the CLI which ESXi doesn't ship with, so they're not relevant. -Justin ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:337220 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Is there a way to force lock release on Access database? (CF9)
Why not have one page that redirects to another using CFLOCATION? Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software Sent from my Droid On Sep 19, 2010 9:06 PM, Mike Kear afpwebwo...@gmail.com wrote: Lots of people have suggested similar things - cause an error when running a query on the access database, which will break the lock. Maureen also suggested deleting the ldb file. That's the file that creates the lock and it cant be deleted. It gets deleted when the system lets go of the This is old news, I'm afraid. It dates back to CF5. Since the MX era, that no longer works. However I have found that in CF9 the lock remains on the access database only as long as the datasource is being used. When the process using the database is completed, the lock is removed automatically. The reason I never noticed this before is that I have been trying to open a zip file, copy the file to the \db folder where it can be used as a datasource, update it, then put the access database file back into the zip file and delete the file i was working on. I was trying to do it all in the same page. Now it seems I have to put the process into two separate steps. I have to allow ColdFusion to disconnect from the datasource first, THEN attempt to delete the mdb file. I have been experimenting with CFThread as a way of accomplishing this but its a bit obscure to me yet. More study required. Or alternatively, two separate .cfm files completely, with the second one being triggered separately to the first. If anyone has any suggestions as to how i should do this, I'd be most grateful. Currently I'm thinking one of the following : [A] A single .cfm file calling separate threads. This has the advantage of the whole process in a single file, but will only work if the datasource is released after that thread completes processing. [B] A single .cfm file, calling the actions that require the database in a custom tag. But again, that will only work if the datasource is released after the tag completes processing. [C] two separate .cfm files, and one triggered after the first completes processing. Perhaps by a third .cfm file controlling both of the others. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion 9 Enterprise, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 2:52 AM, Kris Jones kris.jon...@verizon.net wrote: It's not elegant, but I've found that throwing an error on the datasource works for releasing them. Try a query against the dsn for a table that doesn't exist. Cheers, Kris Try deleting the .ldb file. On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Mike Kear afpwebwo...@gmail.com wrote: I have to make an Access database containing updated data from my SQLServer database, which can be downloaded by my users by FTP.I can make the Access database a coldfusion datasource, and fill it up with the data I want, but I need to release it from the lock ColdFusion puts on it. Does anyone have a technique for releasing that lock nowdays? (I'm using CF9 Enter ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:337221 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
The solution: (was: Re: Is there a way to force lock release on Access database? (CF9) )
That would work too, Dave. I think!The second page would contain the delete functionality? Seems to make sense. The problem is to force ColdFusion to let go of the datasource completely before attempting to delete the MDB file. I have found that using CFThread wont work, because ColdFusion still hangs on to the datasource even after the .cfthread accessing it has completed. Later: ... I tried Dave Watts' suggestion of a CFLOCATION to a second page, and it works on my development environment.PROGRESS! Thank you Dave. So the lesson to learn: [A] ColdFusion 9 retains a lock on an Access database for the entire time a page that requires it is active. Once the page finishes processing, the lock is automatically released on the access database. PROVISO: you have to have set up the datasouce in the CFAdministrator as -- Maintain connections across client requests. set to Off (unchecked). I have not been doing any work on this with that option On, so I can only assume it wont work with that option set. [B] causing an error, by running a query on a non-existent table wont release the lock on the database post-CF5. That was the advice way back in the old days, but now it wont work. In fact it'll be counter-productive because it will cause the connection to the dsn to persist even longer and therefore retain the lock longer. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion 9 Enterprise, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Dave Watts dwa...@figleaf.com wrote: Why not have one page that redirects to another using CFLOCATION? Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:337222 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
RE: The solution: (was: Re: Is there a way to force lock release on Access database? (CF9) )
One could always use the Administrator API, and remove that setting from the admin settings. Whether this lock is changed on the request as easily is another story. Just a thought. Regards, Andrew Scott http://www.andyscott.id.au/ -Original Message- From: Mike Kear [mailto:afpwebwo...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 20 September 2010 2:41 PM To: cf-talk Subject: The solution: (was: Re: Is there a way to force lock release on Access database? (CF9) ) That would work too, Dave. I think!The second page would contain the delete functionality? Seems to make sense. The problem is to force ColdFusion to let go of the datasource completely before attempting to delete the MDB file. I have found that using CFThread wont work, because ColdFusion still hangs on to the datasource even after the .cfthread accessing it has completed. Later: ... I tried Dave Watts' suggestion of a CFLOCATION to a second page, and it works on my development environment.PROGRESS! Thank you Dave. So the lesson to learn: [A] ColdFusion 9 retains a lock on an Access database for the entire time a page that requires it is active. Once the page finishes processing, the lock is automatically released on the access database. PROVISO: you have to have set up the datasouce in the CFAdministrator as -- Maintain connections across client requests. set to Off (unchecked). I have not been doing any work on this with that option On, so I can only assume it wont work with that option set. [B] causing an error, by running a query on a non-existent table wont release the lock on the database post-CF5. That was the advice way back in the old days, but now it wont work. In fact it'll be counter-productive because it will cause the connection to the dsn to persist even longer and therefore retain the lock longer. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:337223 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
