I'm considering moving some of my services into virtual hosts, but I've never used VMware before. Perhaps one of you could be kind enough to explain their products to me? Specifically I'm interested in: * Being able to migrate a VM between hosts for High Availability * Clustering VMs on both 32 bit and 64 bit hardware. * Managing the whole shebang from a single workstation. * Have mostly FreeBSD and some Ubuntu and MS Windows VMs.
I've recently installed ESXi 4 on one of our newer workstations for testing, and I'm moderately impressed. I then installed ESXi 3.5 on one of our older servers (not 64 bit) but I haven't played with vSphere yet. Is this the right direction? Is there some other product I should be looking at? On a similar note, what kind of storage should I be using? Currently I have a few NFS hosts doing most of my storage, which also happen to be the samba servers. Many of my service servers have way more storage than they need. What is the best way to manage data with VMs? -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers-- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
