How many here use VMWare for test lab?
 

Just curious if anyone here uses only ONE PC....... but
uses VMWare as the "test lab"?

Re: How many here use VMWare for test lab?
 

I'm currently setting myself up (in oh, so many ways) to do that. I've got
3 PC's (1 desktop, 1 server, 1 laptop), but I'm starting to experiment
reformatting the server to be a desktop with VPC to "play" the servers. So
far it looks promising.

My main reason to do this is that I also do video editing, and the server
was the biggest puppy horsepower-wise. But the software and DVD-burners
were put off by the server OS, and preferred XP much more. There's
obviously a lot more flexitilbity as well.

--
RL (Bob) Coppedge, MCSE, MCT
me@RLCoppedge.com
http://www.rlcoppedge.com/

<john63401@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Just curious if anyone here uses only ONE PC....... but
> uses VMWare as the "test lab"?

Re: How many here use VMWare for test lab?
 

i use vmware quite a lot for lab and for pre-staging

<john63401@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Just curious if anyone here uses only ONE PC....... but
> uses VMWare as the "test lab"?

Re: How many here use VMWare for test lab?
 

>i use vmware quite a lot for lab and for pre-staging

Could one successfully use ONLY VMWare and only ONE PC
to training and setup a test lab for getting an MCSE
cert?

Example.... I currently have a Dell 350 Precision
workstation with 1 gig of ram and 2.8ghz Pent 4 and 40
gig hard drive.

Could I buy and install VMWare and do all the
"training" I need using only this combo of VMWare and a
single PC?

Re: How many here use VMWare for test lab?
 

>Could I buy and install VMWare and do all the
>"training" I need using only this combo of VMWare and a
>single PC?
>.


My opinion: Yes you could BUT no you wouldn't want to.

Re: How many here use VMWare for test lab?
 

circa Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:54:17 -0500, in
microsoft.public.cert.exam.mcse, john63401@yahoo.com (john63401
@yahoo.com) said,
> Just curious if anyone here uses only ONE PC....... but
> uses VMWare as the "test lab"?
>
I just pared down from 21 to 17 servers, but I still use VMWare.

Laura
--
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The
pessimist fears it is true.
-Robert Oppenheimer

Re: How many here use VMWare for test lab?
 

ah nothing like a bit of weight loss

"Laura A. Robinson" <firstinitiallastname@technologist.com> wrote in message
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> circa Mon, 15 Sep 2003 10:54:17 -0500, in
> microsoft.public.cert.exam.mcse, john63401@yahoo.com (john63401
> @yahoo.com) said,
> > Just curious if anyone here uses only ONE PC....... but
> > uses VMWare as the "test lab"?
> >
> I just pared down from 21 to 17 servers, but I still use VMWare.
>
> Laura
> --
> The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The
> pessimist fears it is true.
> -Robert Oppenheimer

Re: How many here use VMWare for test lab?
 

>>But would you be so kind as to explain why not?

>Sure. Most people's minds can't work as well if they shut
>their eyes and try to imagine what they were just looking
>at on their computer screen.

Thanks Marko!!

That was a very informative opinion! Thanks.... and
now I "see"

Re: How many here use VMWare for test lab?
 

circa Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:18:57 -0500, in
microsoft.public.cert.exam.mcse, john63401@yahoo.com (john63401
@yahoo.com) said,
>
> >I just pared down from 21 to 17 servers, but I still use VMWare.
> >
> >Laura
>
> What do YOU use VMWare for Laura?
>
Fast testing of different configurations; changing machines to test
stuff without having to go through and undo it afterwards; on-the-
road testing of stuff when I can't bring my servers with me. :-)

Laura
--
One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly
making exciting discoveries.
A. A. Milne