Re: Migrating to Raid

Buck Rogers wrote:

>
> David,
>
> My answers are in-line.
>
<snip>
> On this machine, I have the ability to experiment all I want. It's
> great to have good backups that allow one to "go back" to the way it
> was. Further reading shows that I'm probably going to need a separate
> box for the SBS.
>
>>Also it might be a good opportunity to re-work your partitioning strategy
>>to share home and data partitions between SUSE and FC if you really need
>>both of them.
>
> Agreed!
>
>>Dave
>
> Thank you very much for the input....it has been very helpful. I'll
> report back my successes/failures on this subject.
>
> Buck

OK, all sort of makes sense now ;-) Having it set-up for all the different
customers configs is a good way to do it...

Another option which has just hit me is to partition it with RAID 0+1 and
install one OS, be it SBS or a Linux and run the others in
VMWare/Xen/whatever virtual machines (VMWare player is free once you have a
set-up). That way, they are all available at the click of a mouse, without
having to reboot - and if you are running one or more VM's at the same
time, you can play around with their interconecivity - XP to SBS, Linux to
Windows etc. using the virtual ethernet ports on the VM's...

Might be excessive, but could be an answer if you need to quickly switch
between customer set-ups when they 'phone...

Anyway, good luck and have fun with the set-up, sounds like you'll have some
interesting times ahead :-)

Dave
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