jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Sat Nov 12 20:16:28 CST 2011
In fact I have gotten rid of all my old hardware. When I moved to VMs I no longer needed all those other machines. I just upgraded my VM Server to AM3+ and DDR3 but gave the old AM2+ MB and DDR2 memory to Paul to put to work as a Unraid backup system for his house. So I have no extra hardware to throw at this. I am thinking about moving the VMs down to Azul, the mongo 16 core server. Two out of three VMs would reside there quite happily. The third needs high core speed and the server cores run at 2 ghz. Plus it needs fast SSD and I would need to migrate that into the Azul box as well. It really makes sense to host most of my current VMs there but for that one somewhat high requirement system. I haven't given up on the idea but implementing it is not trivial. John W. Colby Colby Consulting Reality is what refuses to go away when you do not believe in it On 11/12/2011 5:04 PM, Arthur Fuller wrote: > JC: > > SInce you have lots of boxes available, my suggestion would be this: > > a) sacrifice one box to the god of Linux, and choose either Ubuntu 64 or > 32-bit, depending upon the hardware. > b) install the appropriate virgin of Ubuntu; reformat the main drive to > suit this; > c) wait a while, while it installs all the default software; > d) when it's all done, download a VM engine such as Oracle/Sun VirtualBox > (there are others, but that one happens to me my choice). > e) install any other OSs that you think you may need (which assumes that > you have the boot discs for same). > > At this point, you should arrive at a native Ubuntu boot and have access to > x number of VMs, with the ability to create more. > > At the moment, I haven't yet flipped my main squeeze, but I plan to do so > in the immediate future. At the moment, I'm running Windows 7 as the native > boot, and then running Oracle VirtualBox inside that, and inside that, I > run various VMs, including Ubtuntu, Mint and Windows 8 Preview CTP 3. > Everything works just ducky. I and everyone else in the world could profit > (even if only the non-monetary version of this word) by acquiring more RAM, > but for now this arrangement suits me to a tee. > > My ultimate plan is to flip this whole setup, so that Ubuntu is the native > boot, and all instances of Windows and Office and Access and .NET are VMs, > isolated from the serious stuff, so that no harm can befall the base OS. > > One of my goals in this endeavour is to learn Mono, and see how much code > can be transported to this frame. As it happens, an old friend has offered > me a simple database to transport from his dozen Excel workbooks into a > single Access db, which I could in theory transport to Base or some other > Linux db. > > I think that I'll postpone this flip until the Christmas holiday week, when > I am guaranteed not to hear from any client with pressing issues. That > gives me lots of time to back up everything (I just bought another 50-pack > of DVDs). > > A. > > On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Mark Simms<marksimms at verizon.net> wrote: > >> The only problem with open source: >> Are you going to get the requisite and timely support needed to be >> competitive ? >> Of course, you can fix things yourself....but then when the next major >> build >> is released.... >> you've got to retrofit your mods. Now if that isn't shades of Sisyphus, I >> don't know what is. >> In that case, with every new release, you're climbing back up that >> mountain....retrofitting, recompiling, retesting, and on and on it goes. >> >> MSFT and the licensing cost can be a burden, but the support is pretty darn >> good...if you know where to look....and who to contact. >> That being said, for all those interested, I finally determined that many >> major bugs in Office 2010 have been addressed in a November 2011 set of >> hot-fixes and updates. The latest release number for Access 2010 and Excel >> 2010 is 14.0.6112.5000. >> The big one: VBA corruption is no longer an issue. >> Is anyone cheering ? >> >> >> >> -- >> AccessD mailing list >> AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >> Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >> > > >