>>> 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? >> > > Yes, you can easily switch between the two distros, the back end tech > (KVM and OpenVZ) is the same for them both. So moving can be a simple > rysnc and some minor tweaks. > > Proxmox will not support software RAID, the community as a whole seems > to frown upon it. That does not mean that it will not work but it will > take some manual tweaking. OpenNode does not really care what hardware > you use and so are forgiving to things like software raid, at least > more so than Proxmox. > > If you make a clustered environment, which is possible with either > distro you can migrate the box to another host without any downtime. > The host that you move it to can be bigger faster hardware. You can > also make a backup of the machine and restore it to newer hardware if > a little bit of down time is acceptable.
Is the OpenNode project still kicking? Forum seems pretty dead. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
