I love virtual machines. My home office used to have 6 servers (3 Intel, 3 SPARC), 2 laptops, and 2 workstations. On top of that I was about to add 5 more Intel servers when I decided I had to do something! I decided that the number of servers could not increase dramatically, so I set up a virtualization server where I run all the small Intel based servers and an Intel physical server. I reserve the physical one for the must-run services (like web server, source control, bug tracking, etc.) and the virtual one for those servers that come and go depending on the development project we are working on. If SPARC based machines where not so expensive I would have created a virtual environment already with them. Maybe I will do in the near future.

There are some issues I will be handling on this environment, including:

• Anti-Virus
• Server Management
• Remote Control