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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. > > > > 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). > > > > Happy Holidays to all! > > > > Firmin Charlot, MCSE, A+ > > Information Systems Manager > > Educational and Support Services > > 162 Student Services Building > > East Lansing, MI 48824 > > [log in to unmask] > > (517) 432-7541 > > > > -- Troy Murray [log in to unmask] http://troymurray.blogspot.com