In my experience, definitely go hardware RAID. ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com
On 7/25/2011 3:35 PM, Matt wrote: >> I am going to throw my 2 cents in. >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Nick W<lists-wi...@atomsplash.com> wrote: >>> I've been experimenting with both the last 2 weeks. I've read that VMWare >>> will have a 16GB limitation in it's next free version, which is pushing me >>> to Xen/XenServer. Just ordered parts for iSCSI SAN. >>> >>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Josh Luthman<j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> >>> wrote: >>>> Xen and Vmware are pretty good. I would not suggest using a Linux distro >>>> and would go with a bare metal (vsphere, xen's alternative) >>>> >> FOSS virt stuff has come a long way since I first started using it 5 >> years ago. There a couple FOSS projects that I recommend to try out. >> >> The first and most mature is called Proxmox VE >> (http://www.proxmox.com/products/proxmox-ve) it is a bare metal Linux >> distribution that can be installed on most any server supporting Intel >> or AMD virtualzation instructions (most do). Proxmox is a Debian based >> distro so anything you can do with Debian can be done with Proxmox. >> This has lead to some cool things in terms of HA and replication that >> the community has built. The Proxmox feature set is not to bad, it is >> no Vmware enterprise plus but does the job. It is in active >> development has a nice easy to use web interface and supports >> clustering. Future releases (like the upcoming 2.0 release) will >> include things like HA out of the box. >> >> The second project is called OpenNode (http://opennode.activesys.org/) >> is similar to Proxmox in a few ways. OpenNode like Proxmox can do both >> OpenVZ and KVM. It is a CentOS based hypervisor and can be clustered. >> It is younger that Proxmox and the out of the box feature set is less. >> I however like how easy it is to customize and script various common >> tasks. It follows the standard way of doing things in Linux better >> than Proxmox does (IMHO) and is also lighter weight, I install the OS >> on flash based disks so space is a premium for me. It also will allow >> you to take a generic CentOS install and convert it to a OpenNode >> member easily. >> >> Both can use iSCSI or other type of shared storage for VM's, I have >> had great success with using iSCSI with both distributions, NFS not as >> much but that was do to some implementation stuff. >> >> As with anything I recommend you test stuff out and see what fits your >> environment best. That being said either of those projects will get >> you up and running fast with a minimal learning curve. >> >> >> I can answer more questions if you have them. > Good info, thanks. If I go with Proxmox can I later switch to > Opennode by simply copying my virtual machines over to Opennode? Is > OpenVZ preferred over KVM for linux applications that do not care > about the shared kernel? > > Initially I am just thinking a dual or quad core socket 1156 processor > with say 8 to 16G of RAM and a few terrabytes of disk in software > RAID1. I am assuming the nice thing about containers is I can easily > move everything down the road to better/faster hardware? > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
