RE: CF (VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware)?

2007-03-26 Thread Dave Watts
> > +) Each VM slice get's a specific amount of RAM dedicated to it (no > > +other VM or the host OS can use it). Make sure that this is enough. > > I'm not sure if this is true. I don't have a lot of > experience with VMWare ESX, but running VMWare server on top > of Windows, if I allocate 2G

Re: CF (VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware)?

2007-03-26 Thread Gareth Hughes
ssage - From: "John Paul Ashenfelter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 5:59 PM Subject: Re: CF (VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware)? > Other than those items (which are really all configuration issues) there's > really not

Re: CF (VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware)?

2007-03-26 Thread John Paul Ashenfelter
> Other than those items (which are really all configuration issues) there's > really nothing different. Your VM will be seen as a "real" PC in every way > that matters. I've been using VMWare since it's inception (Desktop) and currently have deployed apps on VMWare Player (for laptop-based dem

RE: CF (VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware)?

2007-03-26 Thread Russ
> Which OS are we talking about? > > I've done this on small sites (using Virtual PC Server) for Windows and we > use VMWare extensively at the office (large enterprise) and have never had > a problem. > > The keys, I think are: > > > +) Each VM slice get's a specific amount of RAM dedicated to

Re: CF (VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware)?

2007-03-26 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Saturday 24 Mar 2007, James Blaha wrote: > This past week I was asked if I’d like to move a perfectly working CF MX > Enterprise environment running dual CPU’s to a Huge VMWare ESX Server > virtual server environment. The question for you as a CF developer boils down to "if we changed the

Re: CF (VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware)?

2007-03-25 Thread James Blaha
All, Wow, great information thank you all very much for your time and professional expertise. You’ve all given me a lot to think about. If I make the move to the virtual world with CF I’ll post a follow-up with all the hardware information and some baseline before and after stats. VMWare

Re: CF (VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware)?

2007-03-25 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
tts To: CF-Talk Sent: Sun Mar 25 23:34:25 2007 Subject: RE: CF (VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware)? > I don't care about other Adobe products at the moment AFAIK > and can see, ColdFusion is not officially supported on VM. If > it is, it should be in the product listings. I agre

Re: CF (VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware)?

2007-03-25 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
te at http://www.reedexpo.com -Original Message- From: Dave Watts To: CF-Talk Sent: Sun Mar 25 20:52:02 2007 Subject: RE: CF (VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware)? > Running anything in VM on the whole will be unsupported. > Certainly ColdFusion will not be officially supported

RE: CF (VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware)?

2007-03-25 Thread Dave Watts
> I don't care about other Adobe products at the moment AFAIK > and can see, ColdFusion is not officially supported on VM. If > it is, it should be in the product listings. I agree that it should be, but the system requirements on the Adobe product pages don't always reflect this. If you go to t

Re: CF (VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware)?

2007-03-25 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
ssage- From: Dave Watts To: CF-Talk Sent: Sun Mar 25 20:52:02 2007 Subject: RE: CF (VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware)? > Running anything in VM on the whole will be unsupported. > Certainly ColdFusion will not be officially supported in it. I'm not sure this is correct any

RE: CF (VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware)?

2007-03-25 Thread Dave Watts
> This past week I was asked if I’d like to move a perfectly > working CF MX Enterprise environment running dual CPU’s to > a Huge VMWare ESX Server virtual server environment. Good! A properly configured and managed ESX environment can provide better uptime and reliability that a

RE: CF (VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware)?

2007-03-25 Thread Dave Watts
> Running anything in VM on the whole will be unsupported. > Certainly ColdFusion will not be officially supported in it. I'm not sure this is correct any longer. Some Adobe server products are now explicitly supported for use within VMware ESX. > The best thing I can see about VM is licensing,

RE: CF (VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware)?

2007-03-25 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: James Blaha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 2:30 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: CF (VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware)? > > All, > > VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware? > > This past week I was asked if I’d like to move

Re: CF (VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware)?

2007-03-25 Thread Rob Wilkerson
Are they offering you a significant savings? I agree with Jim that virtualization works great - at least in my dev environments (I've never used it in production), but I'm not sure I'd move off of a physical server to a VM without some sort of incentive. Especially if CF isn't fully supported in

Re: CF (VMWare ESX Server Vs Physical Hardware)?

2007-03-24 Thread Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX)
Running anything in VM on the whole will be unsupported. Certainly ColdFusion will not be officially supported in it. We have several ESX environments / networks which host ColdFusion and they all run fine The best thing I can see about VM is licensing, you theoretically would only need to buy