on 2-19-2009 11:18 AM Allie Syadiqin spake the following: > Thanks for the suggestion, Scott. However, I have no prior knowledge in > running VMWare and it might a bit too much for me to handle. Although I > am the administrator of the servers here, I sort of came into this > position not because I had prior experience but simply because I am the > only one then that had tinkle with Linux OS before. > > In any case, this might give me an excuse to try VMWare. :P > > Regards, > > A. Syadiqin It is free as in beer (at least that version), and it will make better use of the hardware. I have an older HP ML350 server I might re-purpose in this manner since it would be a waste to just run a firewall on it. I wish I had some extra hardware to play with first, but I guess I won't need this server for a few months. I can have 2 copies of a firewall, and maybe run DNS and other functions in other virtuals.
The ESXi kernel runs on the bare hardware and is based on some custom linux code, and only takes something like 32 MB, and the rest is available for whatever you need. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!
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