[CentOS] Virtualization as cheap redundancy option?

[Les Mikesell]

Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
> 
>> The creeping CPU problem happens slowly over the course of a week or
>> so, so if you're seeing acute freeze-ups, then that's probably not it.
>>  However, if all machines have been running for a while, try to
>> suspend/resume all of them, then see if the problem goes away.
> 
> That is pretty much what we see. Sometimes we leave the machine on
> through several days if there was no changes to what we are doing on
> it and sometimes the VM freezes after a few days. Had appeared random
> because anyone of us could have restarted the VM during the week so
> those lock up probably happened when none of us did.

Is this with VMware Server 2.x?  I have machines with the 1.x version (some one 
Centos3, some on Centos5) that run more or less forever without issues. Also, 
the ESXi version is even better if you are only using it to host VMs.

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