Hi all,
I am starting to design a virtual server system for internal work.
The one piece of hardware would need to host a couple of RHEL4 virtual servers (one primary, one for application test & development - mainly Apache), and possible a couple of Windows servers (for old applications).
I'm thinking of using VMWare and not sure what the base host OS should be at this stage (could be RHEL3,4 or even Win2003 just to annoy me).
The hardware would need to be able to connect to a FC SAN.
I would imagine it would need to be maxed out for RAM to accommodate all the virtual hosts.
Dell has some hardware which should be able to do this.
Has anyone had any experience with doing something like this?
If so, how did you organise installing patches and updates on the base host? On the virtual hosts?
How did you find VMWare coped with the varying loads from the virtual hosts, compared with running separate physical hardware?
Does adding a TOE (TCP Offload Engine) vastly improve the end-user response time?
Happy to hear any comments,
Regards,
Jill.
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