Memory question in Vista

[RCE Defiant]

Kinda off topic, but what the hell... we're using VMWare Virtual
Infrastructure (VI) in my group and it is way cool. I can VPN into the lab
and access VM's running in VI without having to mess with hw. Very nice.
Some limitations, of course, but still, very cool.

Lang

You using that for any actual services or just for messing about? We've
thought about it but are worried about reliability. Also there's the if the
kit dies you've lost all your boxes on it. Don't feel like losing a load of
servers at once!

 

[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

You using that for any actual services or just for messing about? We've
thought about it but are worried about reliability. Also there's the if the
kit dies you've lost all your boxes on it. Don't feel like losing a load of
servers at once!

Judicious use of NAS/SAN with the usual RAIDing fixes that. One very
major point of VMware is that you can run your VMs on any hardware you
have kicking about.

If you want reliability you have to work at it a little bit. Hardware
is dirt cheap, so throw more hardware at the problem - it's by far the
easiest option.

Cheers - Jaimie

 

[Lang Murphy]

We use it for testing applications. It's a lab environment, not production.
But it's a serious tool for our testing and is especially convienient for
those of us who work remotely and in the past would have to call guys
physically located there to boot machines for us or whatever. I have not
been involved with the back end at all, but I think it's tied into SQLServer
somehow, because we lost VI at some point and the guys there were saying the
SQLServer had barfed...

Anyway... back to Vista!

Lang