Before starting MSU this month I worked for an insurance company here
in the Lansing area. I was able to move a number of our production
servers to virtualized servers, a total of 8 including Exchange
server, domain controllers, printer server, WSUS server and a few web
servers. I have used both VMware Server, VMware GSX Server and
Virtuozzo for Windows in the past but prefer the VMware Server. A
lab I've done work for in CHM runs their production server (web, sql,
file, print, dc) as a virtual server on top of a Windows host.
Backup is really simplified and so is recovery in the event that the
host server goes down, we just plug the external hard drive into a
workstation, load the VMware Server or Workstation product and "open"
the last backup of the system.
-t
On Dec 27, 2006, at 5:31 PM, Charlot, Firmin wrote:
> Virtualization is something that I have been thinking about lately
> but there are so many pros and cons and probabilities and
> possibilities one can find oneself in analysis paralyses very quickly.
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> Is there anyone who has taken the leap and virtualized some or all
> their production boxes and if so any advice/pitfalls/benefits that
> you could provide would be greatly appreciated? What are you using
> for your Host server(s) (Open-Source, VMware or Microsoft Virtual
> Server).
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> Happy Holidays to all!
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> Firmin Charlot, MCSE, A+
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