If you're going to have multiple physical VM hosts then fast shared
storage is very helpful. When you want to reboot a physical machine for
OS upgrade and the VM's are on shared storage then you can migrate them
off that box in a few seconds. Do your maintenance, reboot, migrate
VM's back. No downtime.
On 9/27/2020 11:43 AM, Lewis Bergman wrote:
Thanks guys. Proxmox didn't even come up in my searches. I'll look
into it. If anyone really knows the space and wouldn't mind spending
15 minutes discussing what we need I would appreciate it.
On Sun, Sep 27, 2020, 10:21 AM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com
<mailto:part15...@gmail.com>> wrote:
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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