Re: Changing hardware issue

On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:11:13 -0700, Brian Ronk wrote:

On Sep 29, 11:22 pm, General Schvantzkoph <schvantzk...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:26:05 -0700, Brian Ronk wrote:
I have an issue that hopefully someone can help we with. I have a
server that we would like to have a backup of in case it goes down.
We made an image of this server, and have gotten it to install before
(on the original hardware). The backup machine that we want though
has a different raid controller (adaptec is in the original, hp
netserver in the backup). When the backup machine boots, it tries to
load the adaptec driver. I should mention that this machine is
running RH9. As far as I can see, this other controller is
supported. Is there something that I can change to force it to use a
correct driver? Or am I doing an exercise in futility?

If you need RH9 for some reason, for example you have some software
that doesn't run a modern distro, you should run it in a VM on top of a
current distro like CentOS5 or Fedora7. Virtualization allows you to
divorce hardware compatibility issues from software compatibility
issues.

The only reason that it's running RH9 is because that is what it was
installed with. I think I'm going to try to get a newer version of
something running for that server, but it depends on time right now more
than anything. The machine I'm talking about is our email server, so
it's not something we can take down for long periods of time without a
backup system, which is what we were hoping for possibly.
Virtualization would be nice... But I'm not sure we have anything that
could handle that type of load right now. I was actually going to try
to get a virtual machine to test some stuff with it, but I'm having
issues getting it to work. I'm going to try a few other things before I
label it as not workable.
Thanks for the input. Not quite what I was thinking was possible, but
that's ok.

I'm using VMware server fairly extensively. I haven't noticed any
significant performance differences between native performance and VM
performance especially on my Core2 box which has hardware virtualization
support. I'm using Fedora7 as the hardware OS because it's completely up
to date so I don't have any hardware compatibility problems. I'm running
CentOS5 and Win2K VMs.
.

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