Re: VM Ware for Recovery or Migration

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It's a valid scenario.

VMWare doesn't provide the OS though, it provides the 'virtual hardware'. You wouldn't use 'imaging' per se, you'd need a copy of the files that make up the virtual machine. It's this virtual machine that is portable, and can be run on other physical hardware with a virtualization layer or application installed.

Note that you still need backups run from within the OS though. You treat your SBS as an SBS, regardless of whether it's running directly on metal, or on virtual hardware.

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"Liam" <Liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:AF630242-2F85-41BA-9FB5-B1BD4D1BA279@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Greetings,

I am hoping the communinty will respond to this inquiry.

My undersatnding of VMWare is that it acts as an OS the we could install SBS
"on top of" allowing us to migrate our SBS installation to any machine
running VMWare regardless of the hardware (of course min req's).

This seems like a really great idea since if my hardware actually died, I
could find new HW, install VMware and use my imaging software to place the
image of my most recent SBS install onto the disk and voila! We are up in
running as fast as it takes to find a new machine.

This sounds really good to me.

What is the communities thoughts, experience or comments?

Thanks in advance.

liam

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