ONEIR SOLUTIONS Deployment on VMware
In response to questions from our customers Technical Support Advisors, I asked our VMware consultant to bring me up to date with their offerings. Here are his findings and comments….
The three current recommended choices from VMware (along with the URL’s as of this writing) for running Oneir Solutions in a virtual machine partition are:
1) VMware Workstation – Latest version is VMware Workstation 11
http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation/
VMWare Workstation is a hypervisor software package that requires an existing Windows or Linux host O/S to run it which adds overhead to running a virtual machine of any type. This option has a nominal $249 license fee. There is also a cost associated with the hosted server operating system.
This option is more suitable to run as a desktop-based solution (or as a proof of concept for a virtualized environment before using vSphere) rather than a server-based solution like vSphere. VMware classifies Workstation as […]
