many do this in enterprise environments to abstract away the underlying agony of lease-replacement or (oftentimes politically forced) hardware-refresh headaches.

dedicate the entire esxi host to the one vm, rather than bare metal backup/restore|reinstall.

R.

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On Jul 29, 2013, at 12:01, observium-request@observium.org wrote:

VMware seems to have brainwashed the entire planet into thinking things get faster inside VMs, or that they make more efficient use of resources. Very odd!