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

[Adrian Sutton]

Hmm, I'm going to have to learn more about that. The only reason  
we're using virtualization at the moment is because it's so time  
consuming to set up all these CMS systems and we want to be able to  
back them up easily. Moving them around as needed is also useful.  
We've just found that in many cases they're too slow in  
virtualization and since this box will do nothing but host these CMSs  
for demo purposes we wanted the lowest impact host OS available.

If it's still too slow we'll probably have to investigate other  
virtualization products or just not use virtualization at all.

Adrian Sutton
http://www.symphonious.net



On 28/02/2007, at 9:13 AM, David Jericho wrote:

> 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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