Coolest thing... SCO on 2003 server!

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005, Chris Rendall wrote:
....
>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.

On the other hand, this reeks of ``putting all your eggs in one basket''.
Single points of failure are generally a Very Bad Thing(tm).

Virtual host can make a lot of sense if one has the budget and needs to
support something like a main frame hosting the virtual servers.  The
reliabiliity of large main fram systems is orders of magnitude better than
those of the Intel/AMD PC style servers.

Bill
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