On 13 May 2010 10:52, Nigel Allen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Questions:
>
> 2) Is there a GPL solution that fit's this scenario? Even if it's not a bare
> metal hypervisor and needs an O/S. Remember it has to virtuaize both Server
> 2003 and CentOS

KVM, Sheepdog[0], and libvirt. Sheepdog eliminates the need for a SAN
or NAS, it uses the local storage on the machines to host the images.
You can scale it horizontally pretty easily by adding more machines
with big disks.

[0] http://www.osrg.net/sheepdog/

>
> 4) What kind of speed/bandwidth should we be looking at for the off-site
> replication.

Wholly depends on how much IO you're doing. Is this being hosted out
of a data center? If not, it'll probably cost more more than you can
reasonably afford.

Lindsay

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