tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10485390.post893693370046657735..comments2024-03-01T03:17:37.454-05:00Comments on Dalai's PACS Blog: Virtual Servers and PACSDalaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17775491711029994911noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10485390.post-64247690807896844262008-08-17T04:00:00.000-04:002008-08-17T04:00:00.000-04:00PS..... A note on the message board comment: "...PS..... A note on the message board comment: <BR/>"Unless you can get 100 MB right up to the blade where the blade running Vmware / windows....."<BR/><BR/>If anyone is at a point where that applies then they've got deeper issues than virtualisation. In fact in this day & age if you haven't got Gb to the server then you should be knocking on doors, and I assume since it's talking about Windows, that it's the 'free' version. If you are going to test it as a new platform, give it a fair shot & get an evaluation of the full product.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10485390.post-90744488571310275292008-08-17T03:45:00.000-04:002008-08-17T03:45:00.000-04:00We have our own (non-comemrcial) archive running i...We have our own (non-comemrcial) archive running in a virtual environment. It pretty well does what it says on the tin & I would recommend anyone to take a look. The primary benefit in our case is disaster tolerance - with all storage based on a fully replicated SAN across 2 disparate sites, if one site suffers catastrophic outage (fire, flood etc), all services are transferred to the other site & restarted, potentially within half hour or so. There are some services that don't cluster well, and this gives us protection for those.<BR/><BR/>But there are gotchas. Be wary of virtualising anything with high IO - it may be necessary to have a one-to-one relationship between host and guest (in which case some - but not all - of the benfits are lost). That isn't to say don't virtualise, just consider carefully. <BR/><BR/>Also, don't scrimp with the 'free' version (and don't host on Windows). Go for a full enterprise version (of whatever - there are a number of alternatives to VMWare - including Sun, Oracle and Citrix) and buy in professional services to do it right - because you deserve it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com