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

[Adrian Sutton]

On 28/02/2007, at 4:36 PM, Anthony Irwin wrote:
> I thought he said some where that the system was dedicated to the  
> virtual systems that he is running for the php cms systems.

Not quite. It will be dedicated to running virtual machines  
containing a wide range of "enterprise" CMS systems. They utilize a  
wide variety of OS's, languages and other dependencies ranging from  
Java to perl but I don't believe I've ever come across an enterprise  
ready CMS written in PHP*. The base system for which I'm concerned  
here however will be running nothing but VMWare so will have a very  
minimal set of software installed.

I'd expect the installation approach will be whatever's easiest to  
get the one VM we need immediately up and running. If and when we  
need to tune the server we'll do so, but low effort and low  
maintenance is the order of the day here. In general I think this  
discussion, though interesting, has veered away from my actual  
requirements though. I really just needed to know which distribution  
to install and if there were likely to be driver issues etc. Perhaps  
I wasn't clear enough. For the record, I'm going to give Debian  
testing a go to see how well the hardware is supported - we probably  
just won't apply updates particularly often. In terms of security the  
box will be behind a firewall, only the guest OS's will ever have  
ports forwarded to them and it's on a dedicated internet connection  
so the security risks are minimal.

If Debian doesn't work out we'll probably just go with RedHat since  
it's fully supported.

Regards,

Adrian Sutton
http://www.symphonious.net


* Things like Drupal are neither enterprise ready, nor are they real  
CMS systems, at best they'd be considered Web Content Management  
systems.