Michael Leone on 21 Jun 2008 16:04:03 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Why Virtualize?


K.S. Bhaskar wrote:
> You said it well.  Other than a few well defined situations, I find that 
> there is rarely a need for virtualization in a production environment.  

I can think of (and have done) some for D/R purposes, especially in a 
Windows environment. I wouldn't run a database environment on a VM, but 
I know of people who run some (I speak of MS SQL, and MS Exchange) on 
VMs, with hundreds of users, and they report little to no problems.

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