On Saturday 24 Mar 2007, James Blaha wrote:
This past week I was asked if Iâd like to move a perfectly working CF MX
Enterprise environment running dual CPUâs to a Huge VMWare ESX Server
virtual server environment.
The question for you as a CF developer boils down to if we changed the
Which OS are we talking about?
I've done this on small sites (using Virtual PC Server) for Windows and we
use VMWare extensively at the office (large enterprise) and have never had
a problem.
The keys, I think are:
+) Each VM slice get's a specific amount of RAM dedicated to it (no
Other than those items (which are really all configuration issues) there's
really nothing different. Your VM will be seen as a real PC in every way
that matters.
I've been using VMWare since it's inception (Desktop) and currently
have deployed apps on VMWare Player (for laptop-based demos
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From: John Paul Ashenfelter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: CF-Talk cf-talk@houseoffusion.com
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 5:59 PM
Subject: Re: CF (VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware)?
Other than those items (which are really all configuration issues) there's
really nothing different. Your VM
+) Each VM slice get's a specific amount of RAM dedicated to it (no
+other VM or the host OS can use it). Make sure that this is enough.
I'm not sure if this is true. I don't have a lot of
experience with VMWare ESX, but running VMWare server on top
of Windows, if I allocate 2GB to a
All,
VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware?
This past week I was asked if Iâd like to move a perfectly working CF MX
Enterprise environment running dual CPUâs to a Huge VMWare ESX Server virtual
server environment.
Does anyone have any recommendations virtual verse physical hardware or
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-Original Message-
From: James Blaha
To: CF-Talk
Sent: Sat Mar 24 19:30:28 2007
Subject: CF (VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware)?
All
Are they offering you a significant savings? I agree with Jim that
virtualization works great - at least in my dev environments (I've never
used it in production), but I'm not sure I'd move off of a physical server
to a VM without some sort of incentive. Especially if CF isn't fully
supported in
-Original Message-
From: James Blaha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 2:30 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: CF (VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware)?
All,
VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware?
This past week I was asked if Iââ¬â¢d like to move
Running anything in VM on the whole will be unsupported.
Certainly ColdFusion will not be officially supported in it.
I'm not sure this is correct any longer. Some Adobe server products are now
explicitly supported for use within VMware ESX.
The best thing I can see about VM is licensing,
This past week I was asked if Iââ¬â¢d like to move a perfectly
working CF MX Enterprise environment running dual CPUââ¬â¢s to
a Huge VMWare ESX Server virtual server environment.
Good! A properly configured and managed ESX environment can provide better
uptime and reliability that
: Dave Watts
To: CF-Talk
Sent: Sun Mar 25 20:52:02 2007
Subject: RE: CF (VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware)?
Running anything in VM on the whole will be unsupported.
Certainly ColdFusion will not be officially supported in it.
I'm not sure this is correct any longer. Some Adobe server
I don't care about other Adobe products at the moment AFAIK
and can see, ColdFusion is not officially supported on VM. If
it is, it should be in the product listings.
I agree that it should be, but the system requirements on the Adobe product
pages don't always reflect this. If you go to the
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-Original Message-
From: Dave Watts
To: CF-Talk
Sent: Sun Mar 25 20:52:02 2007
Subject: RE: CF (VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware)?
Running anything in VM on the whole will be unsupported.
Certainly ColdFusion will not be officially supported in it.
I'm not sure
Sent: Sun Mar 25 23:34:25 2007
Subject: RE: CF (VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware)?
I don't care about other Adobe products at the moment AFAIK
and can see, ColdFusion is not officially supported on VM. If
it is, it should be in the product listings.
I agree that it should
All,
Wow, great information thank you all very much for your time and professional
expertise. Youâve all given me a lot to think about.
If I make the move to the virtual world with CF Iâll post a follow-up with
all the hardware information and some baseline before and after stats. VMWare
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