Journal Glonoinha's Journal: This post brought to you by the letter V and the number 4
Actually this post was brought to you by the power of VMware. My journal musings are all done while I am in Linux (Redhat 9.0, using Gnome, connected to
I have a few machines. I want to experiment with things like Windows 2003 Server EE and Linux. But I don't have enough machines to do EVERYTHING I want to do
Virtual Machines. VMs bridge the gap from game machine to powerful business tool. Nobody running a single instance of Windows XYZ Server is going to be able to fully utilize a quarter million dollar 16-CPU IBM x440 with 32G of memory regardless of what application(s) they run. No one application that you or I are going to run is capable of using all the horsepower of a full z-Class IBM mainframe - this is why z-Class mainframes use virtual machines : to slice up the power of that machine and make it available to a bunch of independent virtual computers all at once.
I have a virtual Redhat 9.0 machine (this one.)
I have several virtual Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition machines to play with DMZ stuff.
I have a clean virtual Windows 2000 Professional machine as a template to deploy test things to (copy the VM files to a new directory, start it, rename the machine, and start installing - takes about 10 minutes to roll out a new machine, six new machines fully configured and installed in under an hour.)
You can burn the VM files for a machine to DVD, take them to a new location or different machine, copy them to the hard drive, fire them up and be on exactly the same environment you left behind.
You can have several VMs running on the same machine at the same time, talking to each other over TCP/IP - just like regular machines. To the rest of the network they are no different than stand alone boxes.
Free 30 day demo at www.vmware.com - that is all it took to convince me. I encourage everybody to try it. Once you do, you won't look at computers the same.
No I don't work for them, good thing too because God only knows what EMC is going to do before the are done 'reorganizing'.
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