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

[Ewan Edwards]

I'll preface the following with three comments;
1. I don't know which VMware products you are looking at, or which you 
know about.
2. I don't know the details of your environment, so not sure if this 
is appropriate.  
3. If appropriate, apologies for trying to tell you "how to suck 
eggs".

VMware Server is available as a free download and I suspect, for your 
uses, much preferred over VMware Workstation or VMware Player.  Also 
I suspect, as good as it is, VMware Infrastructure Server (ESX) would 
be something of an "overkill" for you.

VMware Server is, largely, the old GSX Server re-badged.


P.S.
I'm running multiple VMware Server and VMware Workstation systems on 
Linux (RH, FC, & SuSE) in a production environment and cannot speak 
to highly of the technology and quality of the products.  Am planning 
to replace some of the VMware Servers with VMware Infrastructure 
Server over the next 6 months.

P.P.S.
I liked (and agree with) the comment about the number of buses earlier 
in the thread.




On Wednesday 28 February 2007 08:18, you wrote:
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> Hi all,
> 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.
>
> Our two existing Linux server both run Debian. The public facing
> one runs Debian stable and the internal only one is running Debian
> testing. I regret running Debian testing on the internal server -
> the constant stream of updates is just too scary and we didn't
> really need the newer packages.
>
> Since this server is just going to host VMWare, we don't need up to
> date packages for it .
>
> The new server does have SATA2 which I believe Debian stable
> doesn't support out of the box.
>
> Dell officially support SUSE and RedHat, but have reports of
> success running Debian on various PowerEdge servers listed on their
> website.
>
> Help? :)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Adrian Sutton
> http://www.symphonious.net
>
>
>
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