On Fri, February 5, 2010 8:03 am, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Bo Lynch <blynch at ameliaschools.com> wrote: >> 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? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > AFAIK, virtualbox is desktop only virtualization while vmware has more > offering (desktop, server, cloud etc) > > -- > Athmane Madjoudj > Whats your thoughts on Vmware server over esxi? Really do not want to have to budget for Virtualization if I do not have to. Thanks for any info. Bo