> Anyone have experience using VMWare ESX > server? Yes.
> Anyone have experience with Virtualizing a Web > Server? Yes. Many of our clients run CF in ESX guests. > Does it have any performance impact? It certainly can. It could improve performance, or degrade it. There are whole books written about sizing VM environments. Without knowing how resources will be allocated to your VM, no one can give you a specific answer. > 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. This has nothing to do with virtualized environments, of course. If you don't manage CF properly, it will fail. You should not store Client variables in the registry; that option is there for backward compatibility with CF 2. > 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). That's true enough; you can take a snapshot of an existing VM and restore it very easily. > 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 ... If you provide similar resources to the VM in question, it should perform well enough. But you didn't provide any information about your ESX environment, so no one can answer that with certainty. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:6778 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-server/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.10
