Re: [CentOS] New to VM

2010-03-04 Thread David Milholen
John R Pierce wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: I mostly use VMware Server, but the systems were set up before the ESXi product was free. Starting over, I'd install ESXi on the bare metal, then whatever you want as guests. You do need a windows machines to run the console client for

Re: [CentOS] New to VM

2010-03-03 Thread John R Pierce
Les Mikesell wrote: > I mostly use VMware Server, but the systems were set up before the ESXi > product > was free. Starting over, I'd install ESXi on the bare metal, then whatever > you > want as guests. You do need a windows machines to run the console client for > ESXi, though. > vmw

Re: [CentOS] New to VM

2010-03-03 Thread Les Mikesell
David Milholen wrote: > Ok, > So the idea on VM is to have plenty of Drive space? Not space so much as independently-seeking heads. Every process on every virtual/real machine that shares a physical drive is going to have its own idea about where the head is supposed to be at the moment and yo

Re: [CentOS] New to VM

2010-03-03 Thread David Milholen
Nate, That pdf resolved a bunch of questions I had.. Thanks, now I have a focus and some new toys to play with. I am going to configure a VM and have a snapshot of the Native QMT-PLUS server and let the VM do all of the backups to the NAS. If all goes well the goal will be to have a 2 machines an

Re: [CentOS] New to VM

2010-03-03 Thread nate
David Milholen wrote: > I have managed these for so long on just a couple of machines but > technology is changing and we are growing as a company and I have heard > and read great things that can be done with VM. Really depends on how much usage the systems get, if you are migrating from physical

Re: [CentOS] New to VM

2010-03-03 Thread David Milholen
Ok, So the idea on VM is to have plenty of Drive space? Please excuse my obvious lack of knowledge on VM but I am so old school just having a single server with just a few drives only running a few Apps like Httpd,mysqld,qmt-plus and dns. I have managed these for so long on just a couple of mac

Re: [CentOS] New to VM

2010-03-03 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/3/2010 2:40 PM, David Milholen wrote: > For example if i have 2 ibm Eserver 326 with dual xeon 2.8ghz each with > 2 sata 200Gb drives. > how many virtual machines can be configured on those to run a couple of > mail servers and some network monitoring like ntop/nagios > possibly add domain hos

Re: [CentOS] New to VM

2010-03-03 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>For example if i have 2 ibm Eserver 326 with dual xeon 2.8ghz each with 2 sata >200Gb drives. Not much if there's any IO at all, those sata drives will not do much for performance. I have a variety here of sata and SAS and even on good controllers, the sata drives obviously just don't handle mu

Re: [CentOS] New to VM

2010-03-03 Thread David Milholen
For example if i have 2 ibm Eserver 326 with dual xeon 2.8ghz each with 2 sata 200Gb drives. how many virtual machines can be configured on those to run a couple of mail servers and some network monitoring like ntop/nagios possibly add domain hosting services on there also? --dave Les Mikese

Re: [CentOS] New to VM

2010-03-03 Thread Les Mikesell
David Milholen wrote: > What are some min requirements for Hardware and what performance > differences are there in just running another pid for an app? That question is way too general to answer and also depends a bit on what VM approach (xen/kvm/vmware server, vmware esxi) you use. As a rule

[CentOS] New to VM

2010-03-03 Thread David Milholen
What are some min requirements for Hardware and what performance differences are there in just running another pid for an app?   -- David Milholen Project Engineer 501-318-1300 Wireless Etc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://list