On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Rob Kampenrkampen@kampensonline.com wrote:
One of my clients use a software product that is "upgrading" and will shortly utilize micro$oft SQL server 2005. Currently the clients are XP on older machines with the database residing on a Samba / CentOS server and this works very well. Question: Does anyone run SQL server from XP in a virtualbox on CentOS? Any other configuration that works on a linux server? I do not want to have to buy another server grade machine just for this application.
What about Xen or Vmware virtual server running on the CentOS box?
Do they need the full SQL 2005 or will the Desktop/Developer or free edition do?
What about converting the CentOS box to VMware ESXi 4 with a CentOS VM and a SQL 2005 VM?
If the CentOS box is a good server grade machine with plenty of CPU and RAM it would perform well with ESXi, then you can do parallel upgrades of the VMs without additional hardware or downtime.
-Ross