Dear, Yes, VMware is the product which is basically in the market. I have installed and use once i mean about 2 years back. Well, through my research, VMware is only good if your are in a "Tesing Environment". It is not recommended in the production environment. Because of following reasons, It uses Kernel Resources upto high and u need very High End Server IF u are using 3 etc applications like (DNS, WEB, FTP), if the machine goes down all your three application goes down High Demanding of memory Regards, Umair Shakil ETD On 9/18/07, Ross S. W. Walker <rwalker at medallion.com> wrote: > > Clint Dilks wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I work for a school in a New Zealand university and we are wanting to > > implement Server Virtualization for both CentOS and Windows > > systems. So > > I thought I would ask here what experience people have had > > with this and > > what issues that you all think should be considered? > > Irrespective of which virtual server solution you choose be aware that > virtualization brings with it steep storage requirements. Think of > providing around 1TB of RAID10 storage for 20 guests. VMs do lots of > tiny random IOs so for 20 guests split between 2 servers I provide > 500GB of RAID10 to each via iSCSI SAN. > > > From my own research it seems that VMWare or Xen are really the two > > major products to be considered, are there any others I should be > > considering ? > > Not really. > > > Is anyone running Linux "Guest" O/S's inside a Windows host > > ?? And if > > so can you share your reasons for this? > > I do at work so I can prototype some Linux stuff on my Windows box. > > > Anyway thank you for your time and any experiences / > > knowledge you are > > willing to share :) > > I would try both VMware server and Xen on CentOS, if you have 2 servers > set them up side by side and plugged into your storage SAN. Run them > through their paces, do some benchmarks get a feel for ease of use and > maintenance. > > When your ready and have a budget you can move up to the commercial > versions, ESX and Xen Enterprise. > > -Ross > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by > the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged > and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient > of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, > distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, > is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, > please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the > original and any copy or printout thereof. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070918/f2a5f062/attachment-0005.html>