Re: Tech is the biggest problem facing archiving • The Register

On 4/7/2013 7:38 PM, William Donzelli wrote: There is an option for 64 bit systems + the vanderpool vm bit implemented that will allow hypervisors to run nested. I'll put a link to a vmware community posting later. Only thing to point out is that it takes not only the vm assist, but a 64 bit only option. I've not looked into it to quote intel bits, but I do have a couple of 64 bit vm assisted processors that don't support nesting, if you plan to do it study which one you need before wasting money on the wrong processor. When we developed on VM/SP5 we routinely ran everything 2nd level for all of our user work, but had configured all of our working systems to easily be dropped to the hardware and be run standalone. Also one of the guests we developed ran third level frequently on the development machines, but again we had the hardware to have everyone on dedicated 3380's so we could point at them and boot either the VM or the Ultimate system directly if need. the Vmware is usually used from what I've seen for configuring and testing vmware esxi system configurations on a single system before deployment. jim http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8970