On Thursday 07 September 2006 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, > > Long story short. The Win2K Active Directory box blew up in > spectacular fashion today and the apocalypse I've been prophesying > for over a year has come to pass. Lo, there is much weeping and > gnashing of teeth going on. So the saviour (capex) has been summoned > and behold the redeemer is near - in the form of a HP DL360-G5 with > big RAM, fast dual-core CPUs and redundancy!! All hail capex!! > > So it got me thinking. Could I achieve a panacea (Zen) by > virtualizing the Win2K server and at the same time consolidating so > other low-spec servers? So my question to the group is simply this; > has anyone had success running any of the following under Xen as > guest operating systems (preferably in a business/enterprise setting)? > 1. Win2K Advanced Server > 2. Win2K3 Server (in near future to replace #1) > 3. Linux (duh - I know this works) > 4. FreeBSD (just because...ok) > > The planned host OS is Novell SLES 10 (we are a Novell > distributor...so um, it's kinda "politically" motivated).
James I'm not sure that the Xeons have the touted mods that will let all unmodded OS run on Xen - new intel chips do. Find out where Xeons fit now. You need that to run any Wins. HPs ad says they DO. (Xeon 5100/5000 with intels VT goodies) The spat 'tween Novell and RedHat is about if Xen is enterprize ready yet. The situation would leave me uncomfortable deciding ... VMWARE does work, but I've only used Xp with a single rdesktop. That worked fine. SLES is really nice. Pity they left so much out!! So for me where the server is my desktop a real horrid mix of SLES and SLED defeats the purpose of buying SLES. So ... 10.1. ie WHY? openvpn on SLED but not SLES ?? It would be most interesting to hear what you did and how it worked. I guess that if Xen does work perfectly - kudus, else VMware will work. But you break the box twice ... James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
