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Ok, <br>
So the idea on VM is to have plenty of Drive space? Please excuse my
obvious lack of knowledge on VM but I am so old school just having a
single server with just a few drives only running a few <br>
Apps like Httpd,mysqld,qmt-plus and dns.<br>
I have managed these for so long on just a couple of machines but
technology is changing and we are growing as a company and I have heard
and read great things that can be done with VM.<br>
I have another ibm Eserver with a couple of scsi 15k 50GB drives and 4
GB of memory that I can configure from scratch to do VM or what ever I
need.<br>
I guess I should start by asking how VM is configured and How does
allocate resources on the server?<br>
BTW I am a big fan of this list and have been for quiet some time. <br>
--Dave<br>
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Les Mikesell wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 3/3/2010 2:40 PM, David Milholen wrote:
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<pre wrap="">For example if i have 2 ibm Eserver 326 with dual xeon 2.8ghz each with
2 sata 200Gb drives.
how many virtual machines can be configured on those to run a couple of
mail servers and some network monitoring like ntop/nagios
possibly add domain hosting services on there also?
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That's still not enough information to be useful since there can be
several orders of magnitude in difference in the load of servers like
that. I have a similar vintage machine with 4 gigs RAM and 6 scsi
drives running 3 low-usage servers under vmware server plus a slightly
busier mail server on the native host, but that wouldn't work for a busy
domain, especially if you are doing spam scanning on the email.
In my case I was moving stuff that ran on older pentium 3 boxes with 1
gig RAM so the VM's were about equivalent. You'll have trouble doing
much with just 2 SATA drives, though.
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