What would be a real world use for having this?
Just curious.
Testing that new update before you decide to sink your production
system into it.... Snapshot your server and test the update in a
sandbox
Trialling new software.
Make better use of the 8 cores in your server - perhaps having an OD
replica running virtualised as it doesn't really chew that much CPU
load.
Outside of test, dev, and QA environments I don't see a lot of market
actually. Mac OS X Server scales well enough to fully utilize a box.
At that point splitting it isn't the solution, adding more hardware is.
I suppose from a DR standpoint you can use it to provide a rapid
return to service if a host goes down.
The real issue though is the EULA. Anyone that has an existing VM farm
would much rather add Mac OS X Server to that. As it stands now you
must run it on a Mac in order to fire it up at all. What people have
been asking me for is two things:
1. Run Mac OS X Server on ESX.
2. Run Mac OS X on ESX for VDI.
You can't do either right now. Maybe with a mix of Parallels Server
and Aquaconnect you could find some sort of VDI solution, but that
would also require everyone to run server for each instance.
Never once have I had anyone ask me about virtualizing Mac OS X Server
on Mac OS X Server.
Apple picked the safest way to allow for virtualization in the EULA
that they could.
Don't get me wrong here. I used to do a lot of ESX/GSX admin work and
I know the benefits of virtualization. I've been using Parallels
Server extensively for testing, but not for anything production.
Josh
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