This probably comes under the heading of Very Bad Idea. If so - please feel free to slap me as hard as you wish.
I've got a server that we're fairly dependent on. While I've tried to make it as robust as I can within budget - decent hardware, good UPS - it's certainly not enterprise-grade and while I'd like to have a hot backup server right now I don't. So I need to keep this box working - and expedite fixes. I've had quite a bit of success using virtual servers on this box to provide services to my network. And when I've needed to re-build the host the virtual servers expedite getting things backup with a minimum of configuration. So now.... My boot/system drive is failing - but it hasn't failed yet (the data, including virtual images, is safe on a RAID). So I'm in the process of setting up a new server drive to swap out. But...there's always a couple subtle flags that magically make things work that I forget to configure - leading to a great deal of hair loss which I can't afford anymore. So...my thinking...is to shift everything I possibly can onto a virtual server. That would reduce the amount of configuration I need to do on a new host drive. But what about key services like DNS, DHCP, and the backends for such (MySQL). Am I setting myself up for more grief by trying to do this? -- Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154624111&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe: mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
