[H-GEN] Linux Distribution for A Dell Poweredge 840?

[David Jericho]

Adrian Sutton wrote:
> We've just taken ownership of a new Dell Poweredge 840 that we'll be
> running VMWare on to provide various demo servers (IWWCM, Confluence,
> Vignette and pretty much every other CMS you can imagine on various
> OS's, all on VMs). We figured Linux would be a less resource hungry
> host OS and should provide better memory management, but we're stuck
> on deciding which distro to use.

If you're serious about your virutalisation, you'll give a host OS a
skip and go straight to VMWare ESX or VMWare Infrastructure 3. 

Of course, your alternative for virtualisation is Xen.

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David Jericho
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