Lars Skjærlund wrote:
I don't think you should rule out VMWare like that: On the system I'm building right now, I will have four physical servers: One running the firewall, one running internal servers, one running DMZ servers, and a last one running Windows servers for a client. The last three boxes will run VMWare and a whole range of servers: The DMZ box, as example, will run four virtual Linux machines with web-hotel, mail-hotel, file-hotel, and spam filtering. Whilst my present interest in HLFS is for the firewall, ultimately it would be nice running HLFS on the individual machines in the DMZ as well. So for me, VMWare is very much a production system, not just a toy.
FWIW, this is extremely similar to my setup: firewall (HLFS), DMZ host(s) running VMWare, each virtual host (HLFS) providing one or a very small set of services for a given domain. Internal server running VMWare on linux (RHC4) to provide Windows services to internal clients.
All the more interesting as VMWare has just released the VMWare Server Edition for free ;-).
Well, in beta anyway. I'll be curious to see if it stays free, or if the free version is as limited as the player. I downloaded the server, but my license expired before I had time to play with it. :(
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