My 2 cents worth: 1) Bare Metal Pros: - A known and reliable quantity. - Simple architecture - A router or firewall replacement
Bare Metal Cons: - More expensive if a VM Host exists - Redundancy is harder VM Pros: - Simple redundancy - Simple deployment (can build a template) - Ability to run some other apps e.g. Ubiquity Controller alongside Astlinux VM Cons: - I think that most customers would not like their VM Host Internet facing even though Virtual Switches should be secure. My only VM I have deployed has a Public IP Address but sits behind a firewall - The constant concerns of a virtualised appliance passing Real Time traffic. Resource management is important and features like Snapshots and VMotion can cause unacceptable delays. 2) Im sorry but I really don’t see the point of using a small host to run a VM. Most advantages of virtualisation is reaped through economies of scale. Realistically I am seeing less and less onsite servers for businesses. This is the beauty of Astlinux. One box onsite to provide all your communications needs and you can have a NAS if you have slow Internet. Why bother with anything else? 3) Yep as above for VM Cons. Don’t get me wrong here, I really see a huge future for Astlinux in VM but I only plan on using it in a controlled environment with guaranteed resources. Give me a dedicated APU2 anytime with plenty of resources to spare! Regards Michael Knill On 16/03/2016, 3:15 PM, "Lonnie Abelbeck" <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com> wrote: Brainstorming... Time to time it is good to take a forest view of the landscape, so I would like everyone reading this to offer their insights, brainstorming rules, no bad ideas. Background: ========= It seems x86 platforms to run AstLinux has never been better, for example the PC Engines new APU2 appears to be a great match, as well as Virtual Machine solutions. One recently released appliance is based on a Xen hypervisor - beroNet Telephony Appliance 2.0 http://www.beronet.com/products/telephony-appliance/ Our new AstLinux 'genx86_64-vm' board type should work well with that beroNet appliance, or alternatively an enterprising integrator could put Proxmox VE or XenServer on Jetway's new Celeron J1900 based 4x NIC network appliance and offer a similar solution. CPU support for Intel VT-x / AMD-v virtualization is quite common anymore. Questions: ======== 1) When should AstLinux be bare-metal and when should it run as a guest VM ? 2) For SOHO and SMB deployments using VM's, what kind of guest VM's would run along side AstLinux ? Would these be typically Windows Server situations that would need more than a 2 GHz J1900 or are there other Linux based services that could efficiently offer an office full of solutions ? 3) Would you trust your edge network router/firewall to be running as a guest VM ? Possibly dependent on the deployment size ? Please discuss... Lonnie ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785231&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785231&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
