Comments for Documenting a virtualization project

Comment on VMware View/Windows 7 Optimization Guide by martijnl

martijnl — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:14:37 +0000

VMware fixed the link again

Comment on VMware View/Windows 7 Optimization Guide by Mark Liechty

Mark Liechty — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:31:58 +0000

The link now goes to a “buy” page for vmware workstation

Comment on Running SAP BFC (Magnitude) 100% virtualized by fhd

fhd — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:12:49 +0000

no, it is just to be more precise than the title said… it is not 100% virtualized !

in fact I am interested by the work that was done and need to find one solution to have an end to end virtualization.

And this does not seem to be easy to virtualize the end user side, not lot of information about it

Comment on Oracle licensing by martijnl

martijnl — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:05:07 +0000

Which in turn means all the hosts in the cluster (if vMotion is enabled).

But rather than the continue a semantic discussion I find it rather disturbing that this situation is still the same almost three an a half years after the blogpost was written.

Comment on Oracle licensing by Steve Lewis

Steve Lewis — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:47:13 +0000

Hi. I don’t believe this statement is true:

If you use a cluster of virtualization hosts the term “box” as mentioned in the quote applies to the entire cluster of hosts

I wonder why you believe it to be the case. Just as Oracle doesn’t acknowledge virtualisation software as a means to hard partition a physical server, it equally doesn’t consider it as a means to aggregate multiple physical servers into a single hard partition. Oracle considers VMware (and in all but one specific case, also OVM) to be a soft partitioning technology whose existence it effectively ignores when it comes to determining license obligations.

A more accurate statement would be:

If you use a cluster of virtualization hosts the term “box” as mentioned in the quote means only those cluster hosts on which VMs hosting the given Oracle product run

Steve

Comment on Running SAP BFC (Magnitude) 100% virtualized by martijnl

martijnl — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 11:14:33 +0000

Are you trying to make a point just for kicks? In the post I mention that this concerns the back end infrastructure (app server, db server). What someone wants to do with the application delivery to the end user is another use case.