Think also what this means for *desktop* systems. Assume reasonable network bandwidth between client and "processor pool", and think about how many desktop HW upgrades you could save by running "rdesktop" and Linux on the physical machines on the desktop and doing the XP upgrade into virtual machines...8-). The savings numbers run into the 5 and 6 digits incredibly rapidly.
We have some clients doing this with a couple of critical apps. It also does some really interesting things with software licensing numbers. > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > James Melin > Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 4:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: VMware vs. VM > > > That would be interesting. Then your server farm becomes an aggregate > resource pool, and you could move load around as needed, not just to > accomodate maintenance. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
