Hyper-V trails to you
The past few weeks I am trying simplify my surroundings and life. This includes getting rid of the years and years of magazines that I have been accumulating and will l never read again. My mind shift has been thinking I have not even looked at those magazines for years and everything I really need is neatly categorized on that thing called internet (although I am stubbornly keeping all my old Microsoft System Journal magazines). My first major move was getting rid of my main web server/email machine and farm that out, freeing me from the day to day troubles of these things. I have kept my own server for years, but the trouble of actually taking care of it (spam and backups ) and not doing what I really need to do on that machine plus the drop in price of actually keeping these servers in a big server farm, made the choice very easy.
Second thing I started is taking all the servers I have lying around and consolidating them into one server and using Microsoft Hyper-V . Yes I know there are others I could mess with, but the Microsoft version is Free and installed without a hitch.
Before my install of Hyper-V my machine was using 90 watts. After I installed 4 different virtual machines on the server, the machine still took 90 watts. I consolidated my IIS, SQL, BES , ActiveSync and misc other service machines all onto one machine. I know consolidation makes its own problems (backup, machine problems, single point of failure). But I figure if I make an image of the machine every couple of weeks on an external hard drive I have a complete bare metal backup of the system in case something goes wrong.
All I know is that my life is getting simpler and less cluttered by the day and it makes me happy.
Well until I need to figure out which phones I need.
sigh
