• With virtual machines, we have actually gone the other way creating instances for each application and may times on their own small VM. Currently we are limiting VM's to hold 3 instances max for small applications. With the entire host licensed, we do not have to worry about individual instances. The main reason we have gone in this direction is it is very hard to find a patching schedule when you have multiple areas in a 24X7 enterprise on the same machine. Ive found it takes months sometimes to come up with an agreed upon maintenance window. With everything separated it is much easier to patch, but requires patching on more servers. Are others doing the same thing with VM's?

    - Tony Sweet