On 01/31/2011 03:57 PM, Ross Walker wrote:>>> virtual machines running on HP ML115 server. >>> >>> Where is the problem?? Problem is the storage. All storage resides on the HP ML150 >>> server. For that reason I need to install a server as a virtual storage to run most >>> of the virtual machines running on the server HP ML115 with the exception of >>> firewalls and the DMZ server that resides on the HP ML115's local disk. >>> >>> For backups I have an external usb disk with 1TB. >> >> You can probably make that work if you don't care much about performance, but it >> would be much better to toss at least one more drive in the the ML115 - and >> maybe more RAM in both. Even better if you can add several drives and keep each >> VM that is active (the firewalls/DNS server, etc. shouldn't be busy but the >> squid will unless you disable the disk cache) on its own drive. And more RAM >> would help too. > > I would probably take the memory from the 115 and put it in the 150 and have 1 highly usable system instead of a .75 and .50 usable system. > > That's if I couldn't buy more memory. I would say 8GB is a min, 16GB preferred, 32GB is great At this moment I can't buy more RAM. . Are these single socket or dual socket? HP ML150 is dual socket, but ML115 not. > > Can the smart array be shared between two hosts? No. > > -Ross > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com