[Novalug] distro choice for hosting VMware for linux challenged DR
mikepodoherty@netscape.net
mikepodoherty@netscape.net
Thu Aug 30 21:55:21 EDT 2007
At work, we run VMware ESX to host both Windows and Solaris servers. I
believe that VMware has a start version of ESX that you can obtain
relatively inexpensively. If you are demoing VMware for work, I
suggest looking seriously at VMware ESX. We average 3 Windows Server
2003 (Enterprise and/or Standard) editions per ESX server and I've put
5 Solaris 10 x86 servers on one ESX server with no problems. The
Solaris 10 servers are all Oracle 10g database servers.
HTH
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Clif Flynt <clif@cflynt.com>
To: Anthony Soucek <monkeywrenchit@gmail.com>
Cc: Novalug@calypso.tux.org
Sent: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 8:00 pm
Subject: Re: [Novalug] distro choice for hosting VMware for linux
challenged DR
Hi,
I'm running VMWare Workstation and Player happily on SuSE 10.1 and
10.2. Win2K sessions go for weeks (maybe months) between restarts.
The problem I have is that I need to rebuild Workstation almost every
time I do an update. The kernel isn't quite supported, but the
automated build seems to work, as long as I've got my kernel sources up
to date also.
It's a bit of a PITA, but well worth it for the gains. My wife runs
Windows in a VMWare session, and once in a while I backup the VMWare
directory, and I've got a *real* backup of her system in case of
disaster.
That alone is worth some hassles.
Clif
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