Three or four? I run... 20 - 30 VMs per host.
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Mike Hammett
Intelligent Computing Solutions
Midwest Internet Exchange
The Brothers WISP
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From: "Bill Prince" <part15...@gmail.com>
To: af@af.afmug.com
Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2020 10:21:03 AM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Virtual machines
VMs are a great way to go depending on the job(s) you need to do. As it happens
a lot of jobs (e.g. DNS) are not particularly compute intensive, so it's a
great way to stretch resources. We find we can run 3 or 4 virtual machines on
each physical machine.
We used VMware from the get-go, but did not get many of the paid-for bells and
whistles. VMware can become pretty expensive, where other solutions (e.g.
Proxmox) has an advantage because of open source.
The other consideration is containers, which can be thought of as VM-lite.
Containers provide almost all of the advantages of VMs with a significantly
lighter load on the hardware. As a result, you can load up more applications on
less hardware. The leading contender in the container space is Kubernetes and
it's also open source.
Pick your poison with someone you know who can go over your requirements.
bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
On 9/27/2020 7:27 AM, Lewis Bergman wrote:
I have decided I needed to get on the VM train. I know, I am only 15 years
behind. Honestly, till now I haven't had a compelling reason.
I want something that will at least do some monitoring of VM's, backups,
snapshots, etc. Managed upgrading would be great but not as big a priority for
me (at least I don't think so).
Since I don't know what I don't know, I am asking the experienced crowd.
It seems the two real choices are VMWare and Zen. Are there others? Commercial
support seems nice, is it worth paying for? What I will run is important for
sure.
I spent a few hours last night and I more confused now than when I started.
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