Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL and virtualization

2007-08-27 Thread Medi Montaseri
Another view is...by the time you figure out all these virtualization solutions you can buy a used box for less than $100 (no monitor needed) and focus on the real test. By the way, in any HA one issue will be the IP takeover on the surviving node. Under the IP will be the Mac address of the previ

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL and virtualization

2007-08-27 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 07:28:43AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Arnau wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'd like to do some tests with replication, high availability, ... > > with PostgreSQL. The problem I have is I don't have enough hardware to >

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL and virtualization

2007-08-24 Thread Joshua D. Drake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arnau wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to do some tests with replication, high availability, ... > with PostgreSQL. The problem I have is I don't have enough hardware to > do such tests, so I'd like to use virtualization. I'd like to do it > using linu

Re: [ADMIN] PostgreSQL and virtualization

2007-08-24 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
>I'd like to do some tests with replication, high availability, ... > with PostgreSQL. The problem I have is I don't have enough hardware to > do such tests, so I'd like to use virtualization. I'd like to do it > using linux. Nowadays there several products to do it Xen, Qemu, VMware, > ...