Oh. Well, I could’ve misread it too. It happens.
But this could just as easily be used in the enterprise too.
Those users doing basic/moderate database, or office, call centers, or whatever work don’t need their own dedicated computer. You could easily have one tower computer serving 4 to 6 or more cubicles a piece.
Computers have gotten so powerful lately, that using office or browsing the web, playing music, preparing presentations, emails....... so much of what people do today with their computers(enterprise or otherwise) is the equivalent of shooting peas at an elephant. And while you’re preparing that word document, your computer is just sitting there idle.
Multiseat is all about taking advantage of that idle time.
Yeah, in most machines, the resources are just sitting there not being used. That’s what makes virtualization so attractive for servers.
Like PCs, most servers are also just sitting there idle. Even during periods of high utilization, machines these days have so much ‘juice’, the demand barely scratches the surface of their capability. Instead of having an OS sitting there dedicated to a single host, why not install ESX and run the server as a VM, and run 10 or so similar servers on the same hardware to get your money’s worth.
Such a wonderful example of this... At work, around 2 years ago I had tested virtualization enough to be confident in it for use in our datacenter. I did “P2V” migrations of around 70%(80 or so boxes) of our servers down to 5 clustered ESX hosts. I didn’t really publicize it within our department when I was doing the migrations, in case something ‘blew up’, but it all went without any major issues.
When I was done, I invited my director to come down to the Datacenter(he rarely goes in there), and as soon as he walked in the door I thought he was going to faint, because the room was nearly quiet and most of the servers were turned off. I then guided him to a corner of the room where I had the rack with the 5 hosts in it, and told him that all of the servers that were powered off were now running “here”. I think it took me a week to explain the technology to him before he even began to grasp it. After these 2 years of it all running great, I STILL don’t think he really understands how it works. He just knows that it does, and that’s all that matters to him I guess. lol
(my apologies for the lengthy post)