[CentOS] Virtualization as cheap redundancy option?

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Yes, this problem is with Server 2.x only.