On Thu, February 4, 2010 6:18 pm, Drew wrote: >> Right know we have about 30 or so linux servers scattered through out or >> district. Was looking at ways of consolidating and some sort of >> redundancy >> would be nice. > > I'm in the process of going through something like that right now. The > solution we're pursuing is to virtualize our existing physical servers > in virtual machines and consolidating those VM's on a smaller number > of larger servers. > > The tools we're using allow us to keep a warm copy of a VM on > redundant server and if we lose an entire server we're up within > 3-5min with minimal data loss. As the servers we're installing have > VMware ESXi embedded in the server and storage is pulled from > redundant iSCSI backends, data loss due to server failure is minimal. > And as part of the backup process includes regular off-site backups of > the data and VMs to another office we can, in theory, lose an entire > building and still continue to function. > > > -- > Drew > > Thanks for the info. Looks like VM would be the way to go. I have been looking at Vmware and virtualbox. Would you recommend Vmware over virtualbox?