Anyone have experience using VMWare ESX server? Anyone have experience with Virtualizing a Web Server? Does it have any performance impact? Some decisions have been made toward using VMWare but I have this uneasy feeling about it.
What happened was we moved our web app to a new server after 7 years. Un- knowingly the ColdFusion Setup on old server had a tweak to remove client data after a day, we didn't know about the tweak and coldfusion had a default setting of 90 days. What happened next is that the registry got too big after a week and started generating errors so we rebooted and couldn't get the server back up. We ended up turning our development environment into our production environment which was already virtualized. What my network engineer suggested was moving the production installation to a virtual server in case a situation should arise where the server became un-responsive again, in that case we could restore from backup with out too much work (his assumption). The server that he is thinking about using was not planned to be virtualized originally so I don't know if it will be adequate. Here are the hardware specs: Dell PowerEdge 2950 Server - Dual 2.66Ghz Dual Core Processors - 4GB RAM - 3x143GB 10K SAS Drives: RAID 5 - PERC5-I RAID Card - Redundant Power Supply - Windows 2003 Standard The web server gets ~700k page views per month. I have already lived through the nightmare of working in environment that was limping along generating tons of random errors, I would not like to re-live that again. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-server/message.cfm/messageid:6777 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-server/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.10
