Lately, I’ve been on phone calls with several companies to discuss whether they should run their applications on virtual machines or physical machines. Typically, some user or software person has been told the plan is to run their application on a virtual machine. They believe their application is “so special” and will not work properly if it runs on a virtual machine. In general, the concerns are:
- Vendor Support
- Performance
To be frank, when possible, I don’t tell users if the machine is virtual or physical. I’m not hiding this, but I don’t volunteer non-relevant information. Part of planning an application has to do continue reading » »