On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 14:40 -0600, Holtz,Robert wrote:
Scott,
Thanks for your input. The article was a good read.
Reference: Athlon 64 x2 system with 8GB of memory.
I've got a few issues that have me vacillating:
- Ease of use, i.e., I'm being lazy and customizations can be time consuming. :)
- Xen being built into the CentOS build is a large positive factor.
- Xen's Express version limitations: 4GB RAM and 4 VM. Bad thing.
- Windows 2003 Server is one Guest OS. There will be several of these, i.e., an M$ infrastructure.
Then forget about Xen (just my opinion) , i mean Xen without proprietary drivers for the emulated nics, scsi controllers etc ... I've seen during my tests that it's faster to run a Windows (with the freely available/included vmware guest drivers) box inside of Vmware server than the same Windows (without any optimized drivers, because not availble) in Xen ... I know that such 'accelerated' drivers for Xen are available from Xensource and were announced also by Novell (for a annual price of 300 $ / guest iirc ! , to be verified though). Red Hat announced the same thing (no prices yet) for the xen optimized drivers for unmodified OSes for 5.1 ...
- *nix variants: Solaris and Fedora.
- The version of VMWare is the freebie. The unmodified OS support is a big plus.
I guess I could run two Linux on Linux VM's and have two Xen hosts running to get around their limitations?
This does seem a bit obsessive though! ;)
my 0.02 $ ...