On Fri, February 5, 2010 8:03 am, Athmane Madjoudj wrote:
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Bo Lynch blynch@ameliaschools.com wrote:
On Thu, February 4, 2010 6:18 pm, Drew wrote:
Right know we have about 30 or so linux servers scattered through out or district. Was looking at ways of consolidating and some sort of redundancy would be nice.
I'm in the process of going through something like that right now. The solution we're pursuing is to virtualize our existing physical servers in virtual machines and consolidating those VM's on a smaller number of larger servers.
The tools we're using allow us to keep a warm copy of a VM on redundant server and if we lose an entire server we're up within 3-5min with minimal data loss. As the servers we're installing have VMware ESXi embedded in the server and storage is pulled from redundant iSCSI backends, data loss due to server failure is minimal. And as part of the backup process includes regular off-site backups of the data and VMs to another office we can, in theory, lose an entire building and still continue to function.
-- Drew
Thanks for the info. Looks like VM would be the way to go. I have been looking at Vmware and virtualbox. Would you recommend Vmware over virtualbox?
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AFAIK, virtualbox is desktop only virtualization while vmware has more offering (desktop, server, cloud etc)
-- Athmane Madjoudj
Whats your thoughts on Vmware server over esxi? Really do not want to have to budget for Virtualization if I do not have to. Thanks for any info.
Bo