On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>wrote: > Rainer Duffner wrote: > > > >> - if possible fail-over / high availability support. > >> > >> > > > > > > For free? > > ;-) > > > > > >> I need to support about 15 - 30 (some part time) students, so I would > >> like to keep the costs low. If it's free, so much better. SME works > >> for most of the stuff, but it still runs on CentOS 4, and I'd prefer > >> to use 5. > >> > > > > > > I have a sense of deja-vu. Didn't we have all these questions and specs > > a couple of weeks ago? > > That was more about something that scaled up. For 15 people I'd > probably run SME server in a VMware guest on a machine doing something > else. And handle the high availablity by having the host use RAID1 on > swappable disks that could be moved to a spare chassis. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Pfsense supports CARP which can be used for failover. FreeNAS/Openfiler(CentOS) can be used for file sharing and it supports RAID also. and you can use KVM on CentOS to run all of them(VMs) including a VM which can use Zimbra or any other groupware software you want. -- "It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion." "Todo el desorden del mundo proviene de las profesiones mal o mediocremente servidas" -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090415/aa332a14/attachment-0005.html>