Hi I work for a small company which - among things - builds Linux clusters (last week I installed a small Debian based IA64 cluster). Therefore UNIX vendors invite me to "technical" seminars (lets call them pre-presales meetings). Big iron vendors like SUN, HP/Compaq and IBM have technology to create partitions/domains of a big server.
SUN's N1 <http://wwws.sun.com/software/solutions/n1/index.html> is claimed (by SUN) to be the way to go but I guess that IBM has had that sort of technology in many years (in the MVS system) and VMS can do similar things. Virtualization and partitioning are "good old" mainframe technologies. Sitting idle for a minute (during a SUN presentation) I have wondering if I could build something like that using Linux. Since Debian is my distro of choice, I post to this list. My idea is first to create a pool of machines in a single system image. One could use OpenSSI <http://openssi.org> or OpenMosix <http://www.openmosix.org>. And some distributed shared memory and share file system is also important. Then I need to create virtual servers. Well, Plex86 <http://www.plex86.org> might be the best solution (but restrict me to use IA32 only) since I will be able to run different operating systems. Vserver <http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/miscprj/s_context.hc> might be another option. In order to make it much easier to work like my idea above, I need to create some kind of administration software and probably craft a subdistro of Debian so the installation of my cluster would be much easier. Does my ideas sound totally insane? Or do there exist a couple of other insane Debian user like me? Kneth -- Kenneth Geisshirt, M.Sc., Ph.D. http://kenneth.geisshirt.dk Gr�ndals Parkvej 2A, 3. sal [EMAIL PROTECTED] DK-2720 Vanl�se +45 38 87 78 38 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
