On 12/16/2010 7:53 PM, Wayne Johnson wrote: > I looked at VirtualBox, but wasn't too impressed. The install forced > all my NIC to disconnect (expected, but still a nuisance). No > provision to run services in the background (that I found). > > VMWare Server has been my choice at work for about a year now. I'm > running several Centos, Suse, several copies of Server2k3 and 2k8, > Vista, Win7, and even Solaris x86. I run it on a 4gb Intel dual core > Dell system. It's got a few ideocyncracies, but I've been able to > work around them. The Linux version of Server is not quite ready for > prime time. If your not using the exact version of Centos 5.2 > (without update) it's got a few problems. The browser based admin > works great. VMWare Server is free. Actually I like it better than > VMWare Workstation. > VMware Server isn't really supported anymore so don't hold your breath for updates. > I also have an ESXi (now VMWare Hypervisor) on a system at home. Nice > but no support for WinRAID or software RAID that I've found. This > system is still being deployed so I have a lot to learn. > ESXi doesn't support any type of software RAID. To get storage redundancy, you'll use multi-path FC, iSCSI, NFS. If you don't have shared storage, each of your hard drives can be formatted VMFS so each has a data store; that way for every VM, you can create a virtual disk on each data store and use software RAID in your guest OS. ESXi is a simple and quick rebuild if that fails and there's very few configuration files to backup. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20101216/c922c74a/attachment-0001.htm