Here is what i am looking to do. i have a server SBS 2k3 machine. I want to load linux on it then virtualize the SBS server inside the linux installation. I would then be able to compress backup just the sbs virtual file instead of screwing with the backup programs inside of windows(even symantec's and yosemitie's stuff leaves much to be desired). What are my options both free and commercial? I know i will have to upgrade the memory to about 2 gigabytes..:)
On 2/27/07, William Warren hescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com wrote:
Here is what i am looking to do. i have a server SBS 2k3 machine. I want to load linux on it then virtualize the SBS server inside the linux installation. I would then be able to compress backup just the sbs virtual file instead of screwing with the backup programs inside of windows(even symantec's and yosemitie's stuff leaves much to be desired). What are my options both free and commercial? I know i will have to upgrade the memory to about 2 gigabytes..:)
Assuming you don't have the spiffy new intel processors with the virtualisation junk built in, vmware-server should do a reasonable job of this. It's got some very nice cli managment, and you can tune the linux box to be a bit more responsive with respect to the vmware handling.
no it's a p-4 2.4 ghz machine with 1 gig of ram and dual 160 gig hdd's..<G>
Jim Perrin wrote:
On 2/27/07, William Warren hescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com wrote:
Here is what i am looking to do. i have a server SBS 2k3 machine. I want to load linux on it then virtualize the SBS server inside the linux installation. I would then be able to compress backup just the sbs virtual file instead of screwing with the backup programs inside of windows(even symantec's and yosemitie's stuff leaves much to be desired). What are my options both free and commercial? I know i will have to upgrade the memory to about 2 gigabytes..:)
Assuming you don't have the spiffy new intel processors with the virtualisation junk built in, vmware-server should do a reasonable job of this. It's got some very nice cli managment, and you can tune the linux box to be a bit more responsive with respect to the vmware handling.
William Warren wrote:
no it's a p-4 2.4 ghz machine with 1 gig of ram and dual 160 gig hdd's..<G>
Jim Perrin wrote:
On 2/27/07, William Warren hescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com wrote:
Here is what i am looking to do. i have a server SBS 2k3 machine. I want to load linux on it then virtualize the SBS server inside the linux installation. I would then be able to compress backup just the sbs virtual file instead of screwing with the backup programs inside of windows(even symantec's and yosemitie's stuff leaves much to be desired). What are my options both free and commercial? I know i will have to upgrade the memory to about 2 gigabytes..:)
Assuming you don't have the spiffy new intel processors with the virtualisation junk built in, vmware-server should do a reasonable job of this. It's got some very nice cli managment, and you can tune the linux box to be a bit more responsive with respect to the vmware handling.
beef up the ram, and you should be good. I have a P4 2.8ghz w/2gb ram server running centos4.4 and vmware-server. no problems thus far. 6 virtual machines running, one being win2003 SBS w/512mb ram. the one thing that slows it down it to allocating your diskspace at the time you create the new machine. I usually uncheck that box.
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