[nflug] Virtualization

[Brad Bartram]

I actually have a couple of different applications I'm toying with right
now.

For the first one, I'm looking at running a windows based application for
multiple users.  I can't get into too much detail for various reasons but
it's a traditional client  / server app with an oracle backend.  Under the
current configuration, I have quite a few front end machines at the user's
desks with each machine being about $10,000.  The problem is that the
machines aren't that powerful - they just have some specialized equipment
connected to them.

Ideally, I want to take those machines off the user's desks - consolidate
the hardware in the data center and virtualize the user's environment
allowing them to connect via a thin client.  This is very, very simplified -
but it's the gist of what I'm thinking.

The second application would be the distribution of resources in a web
services environment.  This would be a linux environment and would be a LAMP
(or in my case LAPP - the first P being postgres) setup.  Just trying to get
the most bang for my buck I guess.

Brad

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Justin Elze <formulals1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you leaning towards VMWare or Xenserver?
>
> Currently I run a number of Xenserver deployments running on HP C class
> blades and using HP MSA1500 SANs for shared storage this allows for
> xenmotion(moving VMs between physical servers with no downtime).  Overall I
> have been very happy with Xenserver I have been using it since release 4.0
> and it has come a huge way in the past year to the current version 5.0.
>
> Xenserver makes it very easy to vlan tag interfaces on VMs giving you the
> ability to host multiple customers on the same hardware and keep them
> unaware of each other.
>
> One of Xenservers short comes when you virtualize all the servers at a SMB
> is tradionally backups were done with a directly attached tape back up and
> there is no provision in xenserver for it.
>
> What kind of enviroment are you looking to virtualize? I could probably
> give more appropriate advice/suggestions knowing that.
>
> Justin Elze
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Brad Bartram <brad.bartram at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I'm interested in this whole virtualization of servers and services trend
>> that's been on going for quite a while.  I've worked with it on workstations
>> and in the traditional host - guest configurations to gain access to
>> non-native applications - you know, user-level stuff.  I'm interested in it
>> on the server side of things though.  I've read the marketing propaganda and
>> seen the vendor white papers and all the trade news-vertisements, but I'm
>> interested in hearing some real world opinions.
>>
>> I know some of you have opinions on it.  So what's the good, the bad, the
>> shortcomings, and the strengths?  Are there any things I should look out for
>> or things I should consider in planning out hardware purchases and such?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Brad
>>
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