Re: WDSC in VM

Joe,

You can create the VM with the max disk capacity allowed (950GB) and uncheck
the "Allocate all disk space now" option which will
allow VMWare to increase the amount of physical disk space allocated to the
VM based on your actual usage. You only have to have enough physical disk
space available for what your virtual disk is actually using not what it can
eventually grow to. Think of it as analogous to the way we can create
physical files using a large number of initial records, not allocating the
storage up front and allowing i5/OS to increment the file size as needed.

Kind regards,

BJ

P.S.,  Keep us posted on your results as I'm still awaiting the arrival of
the WDSC V7 DVD/CDs.


On 3/20/07, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In case anyone is interested, I am currently loading WDSC in a VMWare
machine.  It's VMWare Server on Windows 2003 EE 64-bit, running a Windows
XP
Pro SP2 client.  I'm not thrilled with various aspects, but I'll let you
know how it goes.

If this DOES work even marginally, I'm going to definitely go out and
spend
the money for a terabyte SAN, and then I can store images on the SAN and
load them into the high-performance workstation whenever I need them.

The biggest issue is disk space.  For whatever reason you cannot increase
the size of a virtual machine's primary disk drive (although you CAN add
and
remove secondary drives).  That being the case, I need an 8GB VM to run XP
Pro SP2 and WDSC7AE.

Joe