On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Rudi Ahlers <rudiahlers at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Tom Brown <tom at ng23.net> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> Yes, the idea is to run a XEN farm. Each VPS will have it own set of >>> sofware running, from Windows to Linux, with SQL / Web / Email / etc. >>> >>> With regards to load balancing, I need it so that the total load of >>> all the XEN VPS's can be spread out among the XEN servers, almost like >>> a super computer. How will I do this? >>> >> >> depends on how much of your own effort you want to put in getting this >> running - it might be that Xen Enterprise is something that would >> benefit you more. It can be done with other tools but if you want VM's >> to magically start working over >> there when the host here << dies then >> i think you need to look at a commercial product. I dont like Xen >> Enterprise and never will but if you want to use Xen then you may have >> to go that route. You could make it so that disk images are on shred >> storage and so recovery to a different dom0 is short but if you want >> seamless then i think you'll have to pay $$ >> >> _______________________________________________ > > > Hi Tom, > > Thank you for the input. Let's forget about XEN for a moment, I was > actually looking at setting up a cluster which has fail-over & load > balancing capabilities, regardless of what runs on it. If XEN > enterprise is the only option,then I'm not going to bother. I don't > see why I need to pay for a tool which has a helpdesk and > "professional technicians standing by" to help me when I get stuck, if > XEN can do the same. > > -- > > Kind Regards > Rudi Ahlers > I've actually been looking at VMWare's grid which costs about $5000 - which is much easier to go for, than with XEN enterprise, but I was hoping to accomplish this task without spending extra money -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers