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Anthony Williams wrote: > At Mon 06 Oct 2008 22:58:12 BST, Kevin Tunison <ktunison@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> One of the companies I work for uses several different dbs, one of them >> being SQL Server. For me, this has harranged a choice in VMWare as they >> only explicitly support OS's, not applications. Has anyone come across any >> political hang-ups when it comes to virtualization technology because it >> doesn't explicitly support a particular database? What was done and how was >> the outcome? Also, I notice that Microsoft has changed their licensing >> structure to be particularly detrimental to the widescale adoption of VMWare >> ESX with MS non-OS products. It would be nice to know if anyone has had >> success in requesting support for SQL server on a virtualization platform. >> > > I don't run major databases on my VMWare installation, but I don't see > why this would be a problem. If the underlying OS runs on the virtual > machine, then the database is just like any other application running > on that OS. If you need to run SQL Server then I would run Windows > Server 2003 on VMWare with a suitable SQL Server installation. > > Anthony > I've not done this, but I hear that Xen can host Windows based domU's... I have used Linux domU's only, but not had any issues so far (none that were not my fault anyway) but I've not used massive databases.. yet.. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html