FMS15 Mac OS X virtual machines

[Richard Fincher]

FileMaker Inc's new licensing seems to favour multiple VMs running separate server licenses. per VM.

I've tried FMS (actually 13.0.9 so far) in a 4GB VM with 2 cores and it seems to cope with moderate load OK.

But I guess the real test is if you have multiple similar VMs competing for host-node resources.  Using Parallels Desktop at the moment (as that's what I know), but also considering VMWare Fusion, and regular VMWare installed bare-metal hypervisor without any Mac OS X on the host. 

 

Anyone else tried anything like this?

Edited July 10, 2016 by Richard Fincher

[Joe King]

I have used all three and I can tell you that the ESX will give you the best performance. I just got done setting up a cluster of Mac Pro with multiple FMS virtual machines