How many of you are using VMware
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How do you like using it? GSX or ESX? Have you tried the worksation version.
My laptop runs the worksation version for XP, 2003, and NT4. this allows me the flexability of testing in various environments without swapping drives or rebuild my os.
I recently contracted at several large shops and saw it deployed on IBM and HP/Compaq servers in production and non production roles.
Just curious.
John Zacharkan
John Zacharkan -
We are. Workstation and GSX. I have a SQL Server Active/Passive Cluster using GSX built for testing with Active Directory.
K. Brian Kelley
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K. Brian Kelley
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We bought a few copies for work. I use one copy on our test machine on top of a very basic Win2K install, very handy for testing install packages to make sure you've got all the dependencies covered. Not that cloning wouldnt work, but VMWare has that nice setting to not save any permanent changes, so you can try something, just close the session and you're back to where you were.
Havent gone this far, but Steve mentioned he thought it would be a good idea on a laptop, you'd have one file to backup, if the machine crashed, just reload and copy the file back, you'd be back in business.
Andy
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I use workstation a lot since I do app developement in VC++ and VB and need to be sure that I am able to run on key platforms. Plus I like to play with various versions of Linux and being a beta tester for a few companies I like the ability to save a clean install that I can reuse when testing various items.
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