I'm phasing out my micro hosting site on Amazon Web Services. There have been a couple of instances lately where there were too many web queries, causing the system to run out of memory. So, we're now hosting on a 1GB memory virtual machine somewhere in a cloud center near DFW.
I've been following a discussion on Desktop Virtualization on LinkedIn's CIO Forum with a mixture of confusion, deja vu, and real excitement.
Initially, I wasn't sure what problem was being solved. Server virtualization is easy. It solves several problems -- too many boxes doing too little, eating too much power in too much space with operating environments tied to the hardware.
The CCIM Institute is become just a little more virtual. Over the past couple of weeks, we've started replacing aging, single-use servers. Rather than buy another small box for each purpose, we've purchased a couple of fast, powerful Dell boxes, installed VMWare, and turned each into a host for several virtual servers.
Currently, we've put two MX, two DNS servers, a batch reporting tool server, and a backup software hosting server into the virtual space, running Windows 2003, Windows XP, and Fedora Linux.
I'm phasing out my micro hosting site on Amazon Web Services. There have been a couple of instances lately where there were too many web queries, causing the system to run out of memory. So, we're now hosting on a 1GB memory virtual machine somewhere in a cloud center near DFW. 