I need to experiment with ldap for a site I manage, and wondered if vmware would be a good way to go for some testing.
My current server is RHEL3, which is getting dated, and I think that I should refresh this server entirely in the move to ldap. We need to have an ldap server for publishing email addresses for a VPN for a nursing home that the upstream can harvest and we can browse to send confidential patient records.
RHEL3 prollie won't cut it, so I'm considering moving to CentOS5.
If I get a nice working test environment working, I wondered about running the server on VMWare, because the hardware will likely need to be refreshed in 2 years anyways. Copying the vmware file and the data to a new server would make for a fast upgrade.
Any feedback on what I am attempting to do here? Any other recommendations on how I should tackle this?
Currently I'm using Samba 3 with passdb. It's nothing fancy, but it works. We have about 20 XP machines here.
The server also hosts mail as well.