Vmware server 2 Platform – My Review thus far…….

I have seen many bad reviews on the net regarding the vmware server 2 platform. I think it works great. The web interface does appears to be a little clunky but it is still in beta so not ready for production enviornments. In my case I have backups of my blog so I do not worry if my vmware fails or not. I am currently running a debian 4.0 etch vm and this is what my blog is hosted on . My actual physical server runs CentOS 5 and I am also running a Windows 2008 server rc1 vm to test the up-and-coming IIS 7. I must say the web based Infrastructure management is cool. You can perform all of the functions you previously could through a ssl protected connection and it also has local virtual media capabilities and console plugins for the different browsers. I have noticed that the browser plugins do not seem to work well on vista ( I have yet to get IE or Forefox working properly with this plugin) however they do work well on Xp (I will be testing them on linux soon) I will be writing some more detailed write ups on my experience with running this new version and going over the install steps soon. Work has been pretty busy lately so I have had limited time to test. A good blog will be forthcoming – Dustin