Now after 2 years of waiting I've finally been able to get set up a staging and user acceptance testing environments.

I've set-up 4 virtual machines on a HP XW8200 Workstation, with Dual Xeon Processors, 4gb of memory, 160GB RAID 1 & 500GB RAID 1 Hard Drives.

To start with I was using VMWARE Server RC2, to create each of the virtual machines, I followed the procedures in the GSX Server documentation as the Server edition is it's replacement. By the time I got everything set up on the network all the correct network settings and AD Settings VMWARE release the final of VMWARE Server.

Now I have 2 virtual clusters as set up in our production environment. To this end Stephen Moretti & Andy Allan have asked me to do a presentation on using virtual machines for the September Scottish ColdFusion User Group. This shoudl be happening on the 28th September @ 8pm. I have also contacted Mark @ the UKCFUG and see if he wants to do it as a phsyical meeting at our Victoria Office's where we can seat 20-25 people for free. Getting the best of both worlds if need be.

So now I just want to know what people want from such a presentation?

Why use Virtual Servers? Why use VMWARE's solution and not M$'s Solution? The savings made using Virtual Servers?

Also I guess I could cover MSCS (Microsoft Clustering Services) In Windows 2K3

I know a lost of people will be in small software houses or have limited funds so the cheaper the better solution but I believe in the next few months my company will be providing a fully support virtual server farm, where I will be moving my solution to, but I guess I can also cover using ESX Servers if people are interested, I can have a chat with our Virtual Server Technicians for any questions brought up before the presentation and have them answered.

I'm not saying that I know everything about virtualisation but I guess I can only give my experiences of it and where I see it fitting in to a development house.

So if you have any questions you want answering just drop me a mail kev at inner-rhythm dot co dot uk.