On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 01:57:11PM -0400, john boris wrote: > Here at $work they have decide to get one server to handle 17+ of my > current servers. I am doing this right now with two HP DL-160 G5. Stupid HP > has some weird Memory configurations. Anyway those two HPs sound like Jet > engines although they are in our NOC I don't hear them. > > This server will be running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with the latest Virtual box > software. It will hold 17 to 20 SCO legacy systems who will get 512mb of > RAM apiece. They are character based without the X system running and the > sessions on there are just Telnet (well ssh) but still very low overhead. > > We normally buy HP or Dell (whoever has the best bang for the buck. > > Any pointers are greatly appreciated. Please no flames that I am keeping > SCO machines around. I know about them but you have to play with the cards > that are dealt you.
Have you tested that your SCO legacy systems run under VirtualBox? I ask because we had some SuSE SLES 8 boxes that we wanted to run as VMs... and could not. At best, after about 1 GB of network transfer they would crash hard. -dsr- _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
