From: "Rich Gauszka" 

You should post some of your questions on the discussion forums for VMware
( easy free sign-up ). The're pretty good at responding and the VMware
people do monitor and answer there.

http://www.vmware.com/community/index.jspa

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"Richard B."  wrote in message
news:vtmk0317v2bdrv2cf4fe5531bm4iv0gmhq{at}4ax.com...
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:31:57 -0400, Rich Gauszka
>  wrote:
>
>>It really depends what your trying to do.
>
> As little as possible, preferring retirement to work. 
>
> I'd like to look at it from the views of disaster recovery and
> lessening server creep all in a Windows environment.  Could I put 8
> servers in to 2 physical machines and have them do their current
> chores, like mail, file and print, internet filtering, AD, etc?  For
> example, SurfControl (internet filter) is on a box with two NICs that
> does port monitoring/blocking and it would seem to me it would have to
> be on it's own physical box (but maybe not, just add NICS as
> required), whereas I might be able to virtualize the Domino server
> with a DC that does DNS and A/V server tasks.
>
> - Richard

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