Re: [CentOS] VMWare ESXi CentOS5.4

2010-02-05 Thread m . roth
I have a brand new Dell Poweredge T310 server with 4G ram and 1TB raid-5 hard drive in it. I Really only need to be able to run a copy of CentOS 5.4 on it, but I'm wondering if in the build process should I stick on ESXi 4 and then run CentOS as a vm? This would give me the options to roll

Re: [CentOS] VMWare ESXi CentOS5.4

2010-02-05 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Thom Paine painet...@gmail.com wrote: I have a brand new Dell Poweredge T310 server with 4G ram and 1TB raid-5 hard drive in it. I Really only need to be able to run a copy of CentOS 5.4 on it, but I'm wondering if in the build process should I stick on ESXi 4

Re: [CentOS] VMWare ESXi CentOS5.4

2010-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/5/2010 11:54 AM, Kwan Lowe wrote: There are many benefits to virtualizing. Except for a few laptops, everything in my house is virtualized with either ESXi, VMWare Server, Xen or KVM. Besides the flexibility, I like the ability to access the servers from whichever room I'm in. I can

Re: [CentOS] VMWare ESXi CentOS5.4

2010-02-05 Thread Michael Dross
I have recently installed ESXi4 on a new HP DL380 G6 with 12GB of memory. I am running CentOS 5.4 and CentOS 4.8. A few things I have learned. First, for best I/O performance you should use the Vmware Paravirtualized storage controller driver. It's a little bit of a hassle setting it up. You

Re: [CentOS] VMWare ESXi CentOS5.4

2010-02-05 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/5/2010 12:25 PM, Michael Dross wrote: I have recently installed ESXi4 on a new HP DL380 G6 with 12GB of memory. I am running CentOS 5.4 and CentOS 4.8. A few things I have learned. First, for best I/O performance you should use the Vmware Paravirtualized storage controller driver. It's

Re: [CentOS] VMWare ESXi CentOS5.4

2010-02-05 Thread nate
Thom Paine wrote: Any thoughts to this, or should I just put on CentOS 5.4 and be done with it? I know it's like asking what everyone's favourite colour is, but maybe a few replies will give me some ideas. I like the VM approach because it gives a foolproof to snapshot the guest and do

Re: [CentOS] VMWare ESXi CentOS5.4

2010-02-05 Thread Ryan Wagoner
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Thom Paine painet...@gmail.com wrote: I have a brand new Dell Poweredge T310 server with 4G ram and 1TB raid-5 hard drive in it. I Really only need to be able to run a copy of CentOS 5.4 on it, but I'm wondering if in the build process should I stick on ESXi 4

Re: [CentOS] VMWare ESXi CentOS5.4

2010-02-05 Thread Michael Dross
- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 1:36 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] VMWare ESXi CentOS5.4 On 2/5/2010 12:25 PM, Michael Dross wrote: I have recently installed ESXi4 on a new HP DL380 G6