The easy way to do this is to run VMware from www.VMware.com. You can run multiple
instances of operating systems on a single machine, so for example you can have
3 different Windows versions running simultaneously on the same
box.
It's not cheap, but the great part is that you can copy the
OS images to other machines without hardware
reconfiguration.
We do this sort of thing when we need to run multiple
instances of the same program, or programs that don't seem to get along with
each other. For example, we've got half a dozen legacy apps that hardly
require any CPU power, but they can't run on the same box, so we have one
powerful box that runs half a dozen instances of Windows. It's great
- you can reboot them easily, manage them remotely, and
more.
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Brent Ozar - UniFocus
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A man is known by the company he avoids.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 3:00 PM
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sure
just give us a minute and we'll make it.....(not)
dirk.
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Subject: RE: [SA-list] Wish List - Multiple threads for servers aliveThe registry access could be configured to support sub key registry values like:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DBU Consulting\Servers Alive (MAIN/DEFAULT)HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DBU Consulting\Servers Alive/salive1 (instance 1)HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\DBU Consulting\Servers Alive/salive2 (instance 2, etc.)Then the software would simply have to be started with a switched instance number, and could easily support importing from other instances. (You could create a generic one with all the setup information done, then create the individual checks after importing.)-----Original Message-----
From: Greg A Weigold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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This is true, forgot there's so much in the registry. Sorry
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And having a different registry for each too? Let's call Bill (Gates) and ask to get several registries....
dirk.
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I can understand the difficulties in multi-threaded approach, but what about being able to run multiple iterations of SA using different logs and such...
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Comment as author: I know
dirk.
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Sent: Tue Oct 21 4:32 PM
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At 11:45 AM 10/21/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>Simple answer: no
>
>This would be a 100% rewrite of Servers Alive in order to do this. And
>that's NOT something we're planning.
I can fully understand the reasoning behind this. However as a
customer,
let me submit another "this would be helpful' comment. :-)
>dirk.
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>Dirk,
>
>I currently have 505 out of 1000 checks running on servers alive, a
>check cycle takes approx 10-15 mins to run with a 5 min delay between
>checks.
>
>As such it can be upto 30-35 mins before we see a service as being
>down.
>
>I have managed to shorten the check cycle by making some of the less
>critical checks check every 3 cycles etc.
>
>Can servers alive be made to be multiple threaded eg:- rather than
>running all checks in a single series, it has say half a dozen series
>check paths and each check 'grabs' its next check in the cycle. So in
>essence you would have 6 checks running at a single point in time?
>
>This would reduce the check cycle in principle to 5 mins.
>
>Regards
>
>Paul
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