Top 5 reasons to go for Virtual PC & Virtual Server
Server Tech, Technology August 27th, 2007
With the increasing popularity of Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and VM Ware, do you know what are the reasons behind this for more and more people starts to use virtual PCs or Virtual Servers?
Below are the reasons that i can think of as I’m of the users of virtual servers.
- It provides more flexibility. As long as your hardware can support, you can install multiple OS to your computer or server. You can use all this different OS in just one hardware and it saves your cost of buying or maintaining hardware. Will be most ideally used for testing environment.
- Preserve the state of virtual machine. You are able to create snapshots as an image, in case your software or application crashes and caused instability of your OS, you can always reverse it back wit h the snapshots that you capture earlier. It saves your job for rebuilding or reinstalling the OS from scratch.
- Convenience. You can switch between operating systems easily in Microsoft Virtual PC 2007and VM Ware. Each and every virtual machine can have it’s own PC name and you can define the memory and space allocated for each virtual machine.
- Environment-Friendly effort to fully utilise your pc or servers. With Microsoft Virtual PC 2007and VM Ware, you are able to fully utilise your pc or server hardware especially for testing environment without buying new hardware and it saves your electrical power consumption.
- Accelerate Development. With the ease to prepare virtual machines for testing, it increase the quality assurance for software or application release on multiple OS platform. Time-to-market reduced as time saved on installation and configuration.
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