ibtimes.com— The market for software that allows one machine to host multiple operating systems rose in 2005 by 67 percent, topping the previous record set in 2004 of 63 percent growth new research indicates.
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Indeed using ESX server I have taken 30 production servers, and consolodated them to 4 servers & one FC disk array. The best part is since the 4 servers are top of the line, all of the VM's benifit from this. Our MSSQL 7 server that was on a PII that had jobs that would complete in 1-2 hours now run in under 5 minutes on the Opterons....As long as you leave the base machines alone, its all good.
My company curently has 5 opteron boxes (soon to be 7) running ESX with over 50VM's. We no longer have any test or dev servers that are physical machines. Our aging database servers that handle our 1600+ retail locations are now VM's as well. All new server requests are now automatically VM's unless someone can give a valid business case for needing a dedicated server. ESX is now definately the way to go.
Hold on. "Virtualization" is not the same thing as "Virtual Machine." The JVM is a virtual machine, and VMWare is a virtual machine too, but it is more often called a "virtualization solution" since it creates a virtual server. This virtual server technology is a subcategory of virtual machines.
Lots of things are working in virtualization's favor.Growth in use of the free VMWare player (I think it was released late last year.)Free server products from both Microsoft and VMWare.Virtual PC is now free.New Intel chips designed to improve virtualization.VMWare's ESX server suite had a major 3.0 release.Many companies are entering the market with their own technologies, or at least are becoming more well known (Parallels, Xen, etc.)The big vendors (such as VMWare) partnering with companies such as Dell and IBM to sell blade servers with their virtualization software.etc.
VMWare Server is good but does lack two of the best features of Workstation - Multiple Snapshots and Cloning. That in itself is enough to encourage me to buy Workstation (or the even better ESX 3 if you're lucky enough to get to use it at work). But yeah if you're set on free VMWare Server is good.
ghardingOct 11, 2006
A Virtual Private Server really is the way to go if you want cheap hosting. Much nicer than a regular shared hosting environment.
neozeedOct 11, 2006
Indeed using ESX server I have taken 30 production servers, and consolodated them to 4 servers & one FC disk array. The best part is since the 4 servers are top of the line, all of the VM's benifit from this. Our MSSQL 7 server that was on a PII that had jobs that would complete in 1-2 hours now run in under 5 minutes on the Opterons....As long as you leave the base machines alone, its all good.
kareejbOct 11, 2006
My company curently has 5 opteron boxes (soon to be 7) running ESX with over 50VM's. We no longer have any test or dev servers that are physical machines. Our aging database servers that handle our 1600+ retail locations are now VM's as well. All new server requests are now automatically VM's unless someone can give a valid business case for needing a dedicated server. ESX is now definately the way to go.
daviddiggOct 11, 2006
Hold on. "Virtualization" is not the same thing as "Virtual Machine." The JVM is a virtual machine, and VMWare is a virtual machine too, but it is more often called a "virtualization solution" since it creates a virtual server. This virtual server technology is a subcategory of virtual machines.
esc27Oct 11, 2006
Lots of things are working in virtualization's favor.Growth in use of the free VMWare player (I think it was released late last year.)Free server products from both Microsoft and VMWare.Virtual PC is now free.New Intel chips designed to improve virtualization.VMWare's ESX server suite had a major 3.0 release.Many companies are entering the market with their own technologies, or at least are becoming more well known (Parallels, Xen, etc.)The big vendors (such as VMWare) partnering with companies such as Dell and IBM to sell blade servers with their virtualization software.etc.
fuzzytexanOct 11, 2006
VMWare Server is good but does lack two of the best features of Workstation - Multiple Snapshots and Cloning. That in itself is enough to encourage me to buy Workstation (or the even better ESX 3 if you're lucky enough to get to use it at work). But yeah if you're set on free VMWare Server is good.
ghardingOct 12, 2006
I pay $10/mo for one.