Re: RHEL and Virtualization ???
- From: Mike Rushton <mrushton@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 16:01:42 GMT
So I could possibly get Red Hat Enterprise Linux and VMware server. That is interesting.
I filled out a web form to Red Hat Sales, maybe I can get some more info from them on whether I cound run Virutualization on my PIII Xeons.
Only experince in virtalization I had was one place I worked had SCO Xenix. They ran VP/IX and in that they ran a DOS based fixed assests program. It worked good. Only one person could used the fixed asset program at a time though, because it was not multi user.
Our old PDC is pathetic - a PII 233 Dell Poweredge server 2/ 330MB of memory.
By hook or by crook I am going to have this server running by the middle of summer.
Thanks for the ideas.
Jan Gerrit Kootstra wrote:
Mike Rushton wrote:.
Maybe someone can give me some ideas.Mike,
The Server :
Old Compaq Proliant 5500, 4 Xeon 5500 CPU's, 4 GB of Ram, 3200 Smart Array Controller. External Storage Works Drive Enclosure, also internal HD's. Oh and a DLT 30/70 Tape drive too. I was formerly an Oracle server.
Just got in a new 3200 Smart Array controller - old one was on the fritz - got it working, set up
Former Operating System :
SCO Unixware 7.1
The Question :
Will the Virtualization software on RHEL let me run Windoze 2K on it ????
Purpose of Server :
To replace Win NT 4.0 PDC / Server consoldation. I want to put Samba on it. But some apps may need to run under Win2k.
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SCO Unixware seems weak on Virtualization features.
First mistake I made is not getting a quote on a 4 CPU version of OS. I think we want to use all the CPU's in the box. :-)
SCO Unixware 7.1.4 has something that lets you run WinME and WIn98 stuff nativley. Merge or something it is called.
They had a trade in deal to get to OpenServer 6, but that seems also to be weak in Virtualizaton.
The one Reseller I spoke with people have been using SUSE Linux and Samba to set up PDC's
Any ideas, comments, or advice would be welcome.
This would be a nice file server if we get it working. I think the one array we made on the Storage Works enclosure has like 170 GB in it as a logical disk.
Maybe we could throw in some more disks in the enclosure - I think there are like 7 open slots.
Maybe I can get an SLDT tape drive too.
VMware server can run on RHEL or SLES, to give you a virtualization layer.
XEN requires a Intel Virtualization option in your processors, I cannot say if this will work, because the Xeon processor type you specify I cannot find on the developer.intel.com.
Based on the compaq site I would say the processors are Pentium III Xeon's and so you cannot go for XEN.
A samba PDC I heard a lot of good things about it, but never tried it myself.
At this moment I would go for a Linux distro + VMware server or VMware ESX and put the MicroSoft OSes in virtual machines. Whether or not to replace the NT 4 PDC is upto you.
Best regards,
Jan Gerrit
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