Looks like RedHat is committing to virtualization in a big way. http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1172935,00.html
If they are talking about putting xen 3.0 in RHEL it's their butt on the line so xen must be ready for action. I am convinced that xen and an aoe san are the way of the future for any sort of linux based services. I am moving my own personal system in this direction. I have already got xen on my server. 6 months without a problem. Next I am going to buy another box and a bunch of disk for a san. Then a second cpu system and another set of disk to mirror (or two more for raid 5) and I will have no single points of failure. I was just discussing my ideas on the linux-cluster mailing list and started exchanging emails with this fellow. He is doing *exactly* what I have planned for my system. Same architecture and everything. Start at the bottom of the page and read going up. http://ian.blenke.com/projects/xen/ He says: "The goal: Make a managable cluster of machines work together to provide 99.999% availability for a set of virtual machines in the fastest way possible with current cheap commodity hardware." Precisely what I have in mind. 5 9's with Linux. Pretty ambitious but it finally seems within reach. -- Tracy R Reed http://copilotconsulting.com 1-877-MY-COPILOT -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
