On Oct 29, 2007, at 12:06 PM, Dave Schroeder wrote:
Here, most of our Xserves sit idle, but need to be distinct
installations of Mac OS X Server for a variety of reasons.
Could you give an example of this for general edification? For my
environment, splitting servers is all about preventing overloading.
I'm not coming up with a scenario where I'd need two different
instances of Server on one machine.
Different customers, different needs, different functions. They need
their own instances of Mac OS X Server, and cannot, either for
technical or organization reasons or both, run on a "shared" Xserve.
But, even on the lowest-end Xserve, they're often sitting >90% idle.
With virtualization, I could combine a half dozen of those
environments onto ONE Xserve, each in its own separate, distinct
environment, but sharing the same physical hardware and storage. I'm
sure you can see the advantages of this in terms of costs, machines,
resources, power, cooling, etc.
That's why virtualization is so popular. It's not appropriate for
everything, but it's appropriate for a lot of what we do with Mac OS X
Server. We already leverage it a great deal with Windows and Linux
servers.
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