Coolest thing... SCO on 2003 server!

[Chris Rendall]

> Okay, I'm going to assume I'm only talking to people who care. :-)
Rick
> did
> the coolest thing for me recently. He set up virtual pc for me on my
2003
> server box. It is running SCO Open Server 6.0 and I can entirely
copied my
> old SCO system there. I can now lose one entire machine, one keyboard,
one
> source of noise and heat, one system that needs backing up every
night. I
> save the space and the noise, but there are so many benefits besides.
It
> just runs and runs from its little  file on the 2003 server, and for
all
> practical purposes nothing has changed. I can still telnet (or ssh) to
it.
> It can still do nightly backups with BackupEDGE. I have the same
number of
> users available. 

VMware has a product a product called ESX Server that runs on the bare
metal and you install your virtual machines on top of ESX Server.  The
speed is very fast and you can expect to get 5-7 virtual machines per
CPU.  I'm currently working on a project to consolidate the number of
servers we have, including my UNIX box running filePro, onto a virtual
machine.  The performance is amazing and the amount of money saved by
reducing the number of physical machines is surprising.

http://www.vmware.com/products/vplatform/vmtn_features.html

You can get a subscription to VMware Technology Network which gives you
all their software for $299 including updates for one year.  It's an
inexpensive way to test and use their software in a development
environment.

Another cool piece from VMware is P2V Assistant that will take a
physical machine and turn it into a virtual machine.  I've used this and
it works really slick!

Chris