So then
you should just be able to collapse the services onto a single server
that runs multiple services.
Not
having a VM solution is hurting Apple, or will eventually.
Not as
much. This isn't Windows where you run multiple servers because you
can barely keep any given server up so you spread them out so you can
still have a server that works.
-dhan
Dan, with deepest respect, sir, have you
ever done Virtualization? Do you know how incredibly convenient it is
to have an entire server in a folder? One that you can tweak, copy to
a different box, throw on a hard drive and toss it on a shelf, ready
to re-deploy in a moment?
How wonderful it is to throw together a
"sandbox" server that you can try some new product in,
without touching anything else? And it if works, you copy it to a
production VM server box and you're off to the races. Having lived
this way...I have no desire to go back.
So then you should just be able to
collapse the services onto a single server that runs multiple
services.
That what I've done for years...what
we've all done...that's really the essence of OS X server in it's
present incarnation. But I'm tired of living that way....tired of the
fear that comes with any new service or product that I want to try,
the fear that it's going to take my perfectly tuned production server
and pooch it.
I don't have to live that way
anymore......and I like it. And it means I spend less time screwing
around with servers....I like that even more.
I am quite sure that even now you
composing a vigorous reply, casting aspersions on my abilties as a
sysadmin, asserting that I am a lesser man for not wanting to do it
the old way.
Whatever. I suspect I'm not alone in my
assessment. Apple is behind in this area....and it will hurt them in
the long run.
-M
I know I personally want OS X virtualization as there are a
number of server applications that have limits to them, at which point
a new instance needs to be spun up (FileMaker in my case,
specifically). There is no way to run multiple instances of said
applications on one OS install - it requires a separate OS install per
application because of the inability to change ports to serve on,
etc.
I know some folks will be tempted to say "don't use those
applications then", but that is not a solution.
-
John
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