[Info-vax] VMware

[Alexander Schreiber]

Grant Taylor <gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
> On 12/10/19 1:42 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
>
>> But what are the applications that can exist in such an environment? 
>> That is where I get lost. 
>
> As someone else pointed out, many applications are written with the 
> assumption that they are the only thing running on the system.  So it's 
> quite common in the Windows (and sometimes Linux) world to have a system 
> per service.  Or more likely multiple systems per service application 
> stack.  So rather than having physical system sprawl, more of these 
> things are happening in VMs.

Yes, at one employer we used virtualization to compress an entire full
rack of machines into 4-6 physical machines while increasing redunancy.

Saved a lot of hardware, power and ops time (for fixing broken machines).

Kind regards,
          Alex.
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