Re: VM Ware for Recovery or Migration
- From: "SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" <not@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 02:04:24 +1000
VMWare Server does not act as an OS, nor does VMWare's ESX (or is it GSX?
Not worried about specifics).
Virtualisation systems (VMWare, on Win or *nix, or 'without' OS, Hyper-V
(MS), Parallels, BOCHS, Vituosso, list is not endless but goes on) emulate
the 'hardware layer', appearing to the created environment to be a PC. No
OS, it is the 'hardware' that is emulated.
I _TRY_ to avoid this argument most of the time but it appears I am 'in a
mood'. 'Hypervisors' (the things that run virtualisation systems) are
nothing more than Applications sitting on top of OS's. NOTE: Windows is a
GUI, not an OS.
Your 'general idea' is reasonable. It is perfectly possible (ie. I've done
it) to 'import' your existing SBS (OS, Programs, DATA, whole 'kit and
kaboodle') into a virtual environment. With SBS virtualised and assuming
that you are able to copy the files from the virtualisation system while SBS
runs and (more importantly) get a proper 'snapshot' of it which can be
mounted on another system it is a reasonable 'disaster recovery'
methodology.
You need to play with virtualisation a bit before you further explore these
benefits.
It is _quite likely_ that any SBS2008 system I deploy will be done as a
'virtual machine'.
"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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