Re: [sheflug] windows virtual server

["Morris, David (Allvac, UK)" <david [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sheflug-bounces [at] sheflug.co.uk 
> [mailto:sheflug-bounces [at] sheflug.co.uk] On Behalf Of Lesley Binks
> Sent: 19 June 2006 15:55
> To: sheflug
> Subject: Re: [sheflug] windows virtual server
> 
> David Willington wrote:
> > Dear All
> > 
> > I'm setting up moodle for a school. The test site is 
> running on a LAMP 
> > server quite happily, but it's been suggested by the 
> technicians that 
> > the production server could run on a LAMP server within windows 
> > virtual server, the advantage being that they can take snapshots of 
> > the LAMP server for backup purposes without having to get involved 
> > with the LAMP server itself. There seem to be a couple of 
> drawbacks 1. 
> > Either windows or linux could go wrong 2. There are 
> additional costs 
> > for them (the windows license, greater server overheads) My 
> original 
> > plan had been to show them how a LAMP server works so that 
> (over time) 
> > they become more confident in maintaining it, and their 
> solution, to 
> > some extent, puts a barrier up here albeit probably only 
> > psychological. Can anyone suggest any other reasons why 
> hosting in a 
> > windows virtual server would be a bad (or good) idea? I've also 
> > mentioned that we could host on windows / IIS, but as I've 
> almost no 
> > experience of IIS it'd further blur the lines over who's 
> responsible 
> > for what and what might go wrong.

Why not run Linux in (VMWare) Linux if they're that keen about being
able to snapshot it? You can snapshot with VMWare on Linux.

-- 
David

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