On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) <[email protected] > wrote:
> > Sounds like what Solaris has been doing for a couple years now as > Solaris Containers/Zones. :) > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Steven S. Critchfield > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > ----- "Andrew Farnsworth" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am presuming that using vserver you don't have the ability to > >> migrate a > >> running machine / instance to different hardware? > > > > As in the vmware vmotion? No, you can't migrate them to other harware > > with the vserver tools. The trouble is that vserver works by > > segregating the host kernel into security contexts and then running the > > "guest" applications within this security context. > > > > I'm not aware of any way to migrate processes from one linux box to > > another. So they are held hostage to the host more or less. Of course > > the "boot" times are on the order of 10 seconds max. So if you wanted > > to build a network storage system to host the guest OS, and you shut > > down one guest you could crank it up on the other side with only > > 10-15 seconds downtime. > > > > So not as slick and polished as vmware, but for those on a bit more > > of a budget, I think we could avoid the cost of the polish for the > > increased productive utilization of our current hardware. > > > > Oh, and with the reduced amount of "virtual" hardware, our backup > > server is now able store at almost double the speed it had been under > > vmware. Since the storage is out gigabit network, same switch, to the > > same SATA drives running via AoE, the only thing that changed was > > getting vmware out of the link. Went from 12-15meg/sec storage to > > 28meg/sec. > > -- > > Steven Critchfield [email protected] > And I guess you could run vserver inside a VMWare session which would let you migrate everything enmass to new hardware. Andy --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
