Thanks for your feedback...Yes... we are well aware that officially only physical host environment are supported....This SAS VA environment is only intended to be used for training and limited development activity, which is the underlying mission of our development lab environment. Virtualized hosts provides a level of flexibility in a development environment that is very attractive. We have a number of other application environments hosted there that the "official", vendor supported hosting recommendation is for physical hardware infrastructure that serve the lab's mission just fine. At the same time, most of the vendors we've dealt with have been willing to offer "opinions" on how to make their products run in this sort of environment, when there was not stated product support for same. On a more philosophical note, virtual hosting is not going away and all indications are that it is fast becoming the norm. In that sense, I think the time is fast approaching for all vendors to support that sort of hosting option at some point.
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