Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 08/12/2010 09:33 PM, Blake Hudson wrote:
If you have applications that only run on C3, then it provides the information necessary for maintaining future C3 installations on newer hardware that C3 does not natively support.
Yes, also in many cases the app being hosted on the platform could exposes services in a self contained manner ( a legacy DB ? ), taking it off the wire natively allows the app to run inside the virtualised container without needing to rely on C3's iptable or ssh ( as an example ), which might in turn have reported public vuln's no longer being patched.
- KB
I totally agree : just *try* to imagine the number or running Red Hat Linux 7.2 still used in production :-) One argument in favor of the virtualization (given by Red Hat at a seminar) was that if you *still* have to maintain legacy apps, virtualization is the way to go, and of course in a separate vlan and not faced to the wild web ...