Unfortunately, these servers are going to be geographically dispersed,
and doing things that cannot really be virtualized. Three will be
doing NAT/policy routing, three will be running our bandwidth tracking
software, three will be terminating VOIP and one will be a network
monitoring server running Nagios/Xymon/etc etc.
Matt Larsen
vistabeam.com
On 8/24/2010 8:17 AM, Rick Harnish wrote:
I agree. When I last looked, we were on our third chassis running
VMWare. The space savings and lower utility bills are well worth it.
Rick
*From:* wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org]
*On Behalf Of *Brad Belton
*Sent:* Tuesday, August 24, 2010 9:42 AM
*To:* 'WISPA General List'
*Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?
Agreed. We've run HP and Dell servers for years and have been happy,
but we had no idea what we were missing once we virtualized everything.
We purchased a Dell blade chassis and three blade servers to start
with. Loaded VMware and have been blown away with the performance,
availability, power savings and features. A "server" to us now
amounts to just a file within VMware that we can copy, backup or move
wherever we please with a simple cut & paste. If VMware "sees" a
server go down or a host within your cluster fail it will
automatically fire up the affected servers on a different host.
Really cool stuff...
The chassis will hold 16 blades, but just the three blades we have now
are probably 100x the power of the two 42U cabinets stuffed with
servers they replaced!
Best,
Brad
*From:* wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org]
*On Behalf Of *Jeremy Parr
*Sent:* Tuesday, August 24, 2010 7:54 AM
*To:* WISPA General List
*Subject:* Re: [WISPA] Good Source for Rackmount Servers?
On 24 August 2010 02:15, Matt Larsen - Lists <li...@manageisp.com
<mailto:li...@manageisp.com>> wrote:
I have a need for about ten 2U/4U rackmount servers. All will be
running Linux, so 4gig RAM, 2ghz or better CPU and ATA drives are
preferred. Does anyone one the list have recommendations?
Buy a new Dell (or factory refurb) and virtualize everything.
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