K.S. Bhaskar on 8 Aug 2008 09:25:56 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Why Virtualize?


So the disk on your crashed machine was fine and you simply moved the
virtual machine to a spare server with the capacity to handle another
virtual machine?  If the failure & recovery were something different,
please do post.  Thanks.

-- Bhaskar

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Ugarit Ebla <ugaritebla@gmail.com> wrote:
> virtualization just saved my a**.
>
> Our production server (CentOS5.2) had a hw crash and we're waiting for HP to
> come out.
>
> I had a CentOS5.2 VM in Parallels on a Mac OS X and I restored the data and
> applications to the vm and within an hour a server in vm was available.
>
> I didn't need extra hardware.
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