It has been an exciting week as we build our infrastructure to support regression testing. We got a couple of HP/Compaq ProLiant DL360 G4s with support for 64-bit Windows. On top of them, we installed VMware GSX Server 3.2.1 and proceeded to build testing operating systems to test SplendidCRM against SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g, IBM DB2 Express-C and MySQL 5.
VMware GSX is not as powerful as VMware Workstation 5 when it comes to managing snapshots, but we needed a better way to run multiple simultaneous operating systems on a single machine. In any case, VMware GSX is rock solid as are the DL360 G4s. VMware has recently announced the release of a free version of the GSX product that they have renamed VMware Server.