About VMWare

[istoryanimo]

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Hi Istoryans,Do you have any experience about VMWare? Post your feedbacks, etc.

[dammy]

im using vmware for my test software, and some for production running on lunix base. its cool to play with vmware on a single machine but when the machine crashes all data is corrupted. not good at all. when running a vmware in production line you must have a redundant array of machine so you can surely back up some data and recover it later.

[BadDudes]

huh? ... redundant array of machine for backup? then why use vmware!

[r0mm3L]

2 to 3 physical machines is advisable

if only one physical machine with several virtual machines (lets say 20 virtual machines), there is a single point of failure.

if one physical machine fails those 20 virtual machines on it will immediately transfer its ownership to another physical machine. feature called vmware HA+vmotion.

[BadDudes]

u missed the point rommel ... as what have stated .. an array of machine for backup! .. not for high availability

[r0mm3L]

im just sharing vmware's features and soon sharing my experience. that's my own point

[dammy]

correct me if im wrong with this. redundant array of machine its not like a RAID setup its more like multiple machine with storage on it with the same data on each single machine. data is already back up. sorry for that.

[dagski]

if you're going to use VMWare in a production environment(Virtual Infrastructure). be ready to spend $$$. but for testing/hobby purposes, mainstream desktop specs will suffice.

[BadDudes]

anyways .. back to topic .. vmware (workstation) is a good software started using as early as v.2.xx and its latest release now supports DX9!! cool.

[potterboy]

with testing, yes. production, never. I dont stick my nose into something i might get extra work. hehe