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I wonder what type of servers for internal usage you virtualize in the last -say- 6 months. Here's what we got virtual so far:
mediawiki bugtracker (mantis) subversion We didn't virtualize spezialized desktop PCs which are running a certain software product...
Started by cringe on
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It is very practical to move it and also to backup, we just stop the Virtual Machine take the opotunity to create virtual machines for the following servers
Buid Machine Svn Repository environment I decided....
Server on Linux.
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Hey all...Forgive me, as I am not up to speed on my server administration abilities. I'm currently looking at specifications for a new server that I need to build. The server will need to serve multiple duties such as:
web server hosting SQL Server 20...
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For instance, if you give your Production Web Server VM 2 cores, Production SQL VM 2 cores, Development Web Server 1 core, and Development SQL VM 1 core, you to put the webservers in a DMZ and....
That is less than your total (8) will help.
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Disclaimer: I'm a developer and I know very little about setting up servers, but in small shops, responsibilities tend to bleed over.
We've just got a new server to run SQL Server on, and we're trying to decide how to best allocate responsiblities for...
Started by Stefan Moser on
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I think virtualize only when you have servers that sit idle most of the time with a small to ....
On the amount of resources the basic servers can utilize while allowing the SQL server to grab as much for increased stability.
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In a web application architecture with 1 app server (IIS) and 1 database server (MSSQL), if you had to pick one server to virtualize in a VM, which would it be: web or db?
Generally speaking of course.
Started by Matias Nino on
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SQLI would probably decide depending....
The shortcoming of most virtual environments is I/O, especially disk.
Have two physical servers there is no need to virtualise - use one server for IIS and one with a SQL Server back end.
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What do you think? What is the number one reason SMBs virtualize their servers?
a. Reduce costs (servers, electricity, space…)
b. Increase agility
c. Provide high availability
d. Provide disaster recovery
e. Other (fill in the blank)
Started by Ivan @ Dell on
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Ivan, I would have to go with either B for agility .
To spin up a test server in no time at all.
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It's budgeting time and Corporate is balking at the cost of replacing a coworker's machine who is due for it, needs it, and deserves it.
Our group is a small ISV/SAAS that exists as a division of a larger media group. We are not a cost center, we make...
Started by David on
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In a virtual environment I can, your Continuous Integration....
It's also an issue of control.
Individual boxes are still better.
I don't see that happening in a virtual environment with any economy.
To be productive in today's modern IDE's.
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I have a laptop that I'd like to run multiple operating systems on, at the same time. Specifically, I'd like to be able to boot up a Windows 7, if needed, a Windows XP, if needed, and a Ubuntu desktop, if needed.
Basically, I'm wondering if there's a ...
Started by Lasse V. Karlsen on
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However the focus of these platforms are mainly ....
I would then remote into each of the machines I wanted using-V HyperVisor which uses Windows Server 2008 Server Core, and VMware ESX.
Windows on a machine and load VMWare Server.
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Good afternoon everyone,
Was just looking to see if anyone else has done anything similar and if this is a bad practice or not. For those who have virtualized their file servers, does anyone just create a large VHD (I'm using Hyper-V here) as a disk to...
Started by beta on
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We'd allocate a virtual disk for Operating Systems and a Virtual Disk....
What we would do is allocate the storage like we would for a bare metal install .
A few years ago we used to do this on custom SMB oriented servers running ESXi.
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We develop websites using SQL Server and ASP.NET.
Development: web
on developer PC, database on DEV server Testing: both on TEST server Live: both on LIVE server At the moment, DEV and TEST servers are separate physical servers. I'm considering making...
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It worked well, despite my machine question, but there isn't much in... .
If the servers are only SQL 2005 servers (W2003 Server) to test database mirroring.
Server might have some subtle internal detection / compensation code).
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My company is hosting a few separate, but related, moderately hit, web sites. Accordingly, a production database server, staging database server, production web server, staging web server, etc are needed. My question is, should we invest in physically...
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For any modern web site ....
As for production web server server.
You of the physical machine or a ludicrous work-around to avoid a hard reset .
You certainly want physical separation between the development and the production servers.
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