Positive Fedora Vibes

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 10/7/06, Christopher A. Williams <chrisw01 at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 14:01 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > On 10/7/06, Christopher A. Williams <chrisw01 at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 16:26 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
> > >
> > > > And then there's this:
> > > >
> > > > http://smallbusiness.itworld.com/4383/nls_networking061005/pfindex.html
> > > >
> > > > ''...I estimate each Vista user will cost your company between $3,250
> > > > and $5,000. That's each and every Vista user. ...''
> > >
> > > <snip...>
> > >
> > > I'm also a regional practice lead for virtualization technology (mainly
> > > VMware and Virtual Iron) for my company. I've been having a great time
> > > ribbing our MS liaison in the office about the fact that our lab runs
> > > all of the Office 2K7, Longhorn and Vista stuff on VMware Server hosted
> > > on Fedora Core 5 without so much as a hiccup. We're going to upgrade to
> > > VI3 next week, but will still keep 1 server as Fedora and VMware Server
> > > to run a few things.
> > ><snip...>
> > >
> >
> > How's running Fedora in a production environment working out for you?
> > What version do you use?
>
> This server is actually part of our development and testing lab, but we
> rely on it as if it were production. It's a dual-processor Proliant
> DL380 with 4GB RAM running Fedora Core 5 with VMware Server 1.0.1 and
> routinely hosts around 5 virtual machines of Windows Server 2003 R2, SQL
> Server 2005 and Longhorn. The Windows Server VMs all have at least 512MB
> RAM allocated to them (Longhorn needs more) and we've never exceeded 50%
> average CPU and RAM utilization with 5 of them running at once.
>

sweett setup. Pity you had to run Windows....but I know in the real
world, it sometimes can't be avoided.

And here I thought runing WinXP Pro under Qemu ontop of FC5 on my
desktop was a big deal.

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Fedora Core 5 and proud