Conan Whalen-McKain (1/8/2009)
I was hoping to recieve from your article a more precise breakdown of how you are making virtualization work. I have been the guy trying to use VMWare server to make it work and just found it to not handle at all well. Could you perhaps discuss more precisely how this works and what the product core is you are using?
I don't want to hijack Perry's discussion on this, but to help him out, can you post what version/edition of VMware you are using, and what your host hardware configuration is? Then the number and type of virtual guest servers you are trying to run on that and their sizes for vCPU, memory, and what software runs on them?
My company has a very large virtual environment, and for SQL my virtualized production servers outnumber my physical ones 4 to 1 and it works great, but the above information is all important to maybe helping provide information about what might be your issues.
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