Comments on: Too Big To Fail – VM Density and HA http://blog.mvaughn.us/2010/02/18/too-big-to-fail/ Weblog of Mark Vaughn, an IT professional and vExpert specializing in Enterprise Architecture, virtualization, web architecture and general technology evangelism Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:47:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Les Kennady http://blog.mvaughn.us/2010/02/18/too-big-to-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-162 Les Kennady Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:23:27 +0000 http://blog.mvaughn.us/?p=172#comment-162 Reference you're "too big to fail" article, you're probably right about the comment that there are no right or wrong answers, but for the sort of organisations that you describe, failure is not an option. A particularly nice solution that I've used for a number of organisations is a fault-tolerant server From NEC. http://www.nec-computers.com/222/products/servers/nec-express5800-fault-tolerant.htm . Nicely suited to VMWare, no special knowledge required, a great support-wrap, and no special software licences needed either. Les K. Reference you’re “too big to fail” article, you’re probably right about the comment that there are no right or wrong answers, but for the sort of organisations that you describe, failure is not an option. A particularly nice solution that I’ve used for a number of organisations is a fault-tolerant server From NEC. http://www.nec-computers.com/222/products/servers/nec-express5800-fault-tolerant.htm . Nicely suited to VMWare, no special knowledge required, a great support-wrap, and no special software licences needed either.

Les K.

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