You're right, sort of. Since VMware VMs have direct access to the CPU, you get near-native performance for processor-intensive applications. Its I/O where performance degrades, because VMware has to pass all those requests through the host. Even then, you only see about 20% loss in performance. And who cares if you're migrating your app from an older 500MHz machine to a newer 2GHz machine? You'd actually gain in performance!
My only question would be, what kind of nut wants to host that many sessions of Windows on one machine, unless you're like a cable provider and your customers are running clients.
You could be a web-hosting service that would like to offer each of its customers their own instance of an OS without giving them their own box.
Saves money on hardware, but gives customer complete control of their OS.
64 VMware virtual machines can run quite nicely on a 32x with 64GB of RAM. No, I don't suggest you stick Exchange on those VMs, but they could make a great IIS web-farm in a box. Its a solution for the poor scaling of IIS.
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MS won't certify VMware GSX 2.5 on Datacenter either. Thats even dirtier.
You're right, sort of. Since VMware VMs have direct access to the CPU, you get near-native performance for processor-intensive applications. Its I/O where performance degrades, because VMware has to pass all those requests through the host. Even then, you only see about 20% loss in performance. And who cares if you're migrating your app from an older 500MHz machine to a newer 2GHz machine? You'd actually gain in performance!
My only question would be, what kind of nut wants to host that many sessions of Windows on one machine, unless you're like a cable provider and your customers are running clients.
You could be a web-hosting service that would like to offer each of its customers their own instance of an OS without giving them their own box.
Saves money on hardware, but gives customer complete control of their OS.
64 VMware virtual machines can run quite nicely on a 32x with 64GB of RAM. No, I don't suggest you stick Exchange on those VMs, but they could make a great IIS web-farm in a box. Its a solution for the poor scaling of IIS.
VMware is the leader in PC virtualization technology. What makes you think they have to play catch up to anybody?
Sorry, but I believe MS aquired Connectix so that it can catch up to (and probably kill) VMware.
I have yet to see a lost SMS
Of course you have yet to see a lost SMS. If you actually saw it, then it wouldn't be lost!
Sorry, couldn't resist the lame joke...
What is your source?
I'm pretty sure EULA's are not legal in Europe, but I am not sure at all.
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I gotta say, I love the contradiction in terms here
(Just poking fun here... The rest of your paragraph was great.)
No, thats sharks with FRICKEN laser beams!