From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Geo"  wrote in message
news:43827fc4$3{at}w3.nls.net...
> I realize the bigger iron does this but what I've seen of businesses we
> deal
> with (as an ISP) I never ever have seen anyone doing vm stuff except at
> the
> desktop as a way to get multiple environments for testing purposes. I
> don't
> think I've ever seen it in a production environment.
>
> Most of the cost cutting I've seen is consolidation of functions, like
> moving the web server and email and proxy to the same box type of stuff.

Oh, btw., I saw a demo at some tech show where they had a bunch of virtual
servers in a blade rack, and there was this controlling software that
allowed the "images" to be dragged from one blade unit to
another, while running, without the apps inside it or the users using the
software running on the virtual server, noticing. It seemed like a neat way
to achieve some serious uptime - get a new piece of hardware, move the
server to that, take out the old one, repeat as needed. 'twas neat, but
looked expensive...


Antti Kurenniemi

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