jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Sat Jan 12 22:35:26 CST 2008
If you are thinking about the file duplication inside of WHS, that goes away with RAID. No need to duplicate since the raid takes care of that. John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 9:17 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Windows Home Server running on a virtual machine I was waiting for that! You just had to push it, didn't you :o) Actually, other than licensing I see no reason why you couldn't. Maybe MS's cool new replication technology will not like though. Who knows? -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 7:43 PM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'; 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: [dba-Tech] Windows Home Server running on a virtual machine Here's a novel concept, can I run WHS as a virtual machine on Virtual Server or Virtual PC? IOW can I take the migration tool (VMWare or Windows) install it on the underlying WHS Windows 2003 OS, take a snapshot of the software, take the virtual PC (or VMWare equivalent) file and move it into a virtual server? Why would I do this? RAID!!! I have two fairly high powered servers with terabyte raid arrays. The one glaring weakness of WHS is that it does not support raid, and these machines already have raid set up on them. Thus WHS would boot off of and store onto RAID automatically. Plus as I understand it, a virtual PC can only use a single core so WHS will grab a core and as much memory as I give it and just sit there chugging. I think I like this idea. John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.1/1220 - Release Date: 1/11/2008 6:09 PM _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com