On 4 June 2010 19:28, Rob Beard <r...@esdelle.co.uk> wrote: > Hi folks, > > At work we're looking at server virtualization, both to give us a bit > more redundancy against hardware failure and also to try and cut down on > our power requirements a bit by getting shot of some older servers (P3, > early P4's). > > Now we already have two IBM x Series servers which are going on about 4 > years old. The idea is to maybe replace these with something a bit > newer and then re-use them for less mission critical uses. > > These servers have the old P4 based Xeons in them running at 3GHz. > According to Intel's web site they don't support Intel-VT technology but > they are 64-Bit capable (IIRC they support EM64T). In the past I've > played around with VMWare Server running on top of Linux (and Windows), > in fact at home I have it running happy on my server with a couple of > VM's chugging away. > > What I'd like to do though is use some bare metal virtualization. I > gather the newer virtualization software such as Microsoft Hyper-V, > VMWare ESXi and KVM all require Intel-VT technology or AMD-V. I > wondered if anyone knew of any bare metal virtualization software that > supports the older CPUs? > > I'm pretty certain an older version of ESXi did although when I last > tried it a couple of years back it didn't support the hardware I tried > it on (a bog standard Phenom X4 desktop PC). I can't for the life of me > find a download link for the older ESXi software (which I believe VMWare > were starting to give away). > > So before I give up, does anyone know of anything that would be suitable > which doesn't require Intel-VT or AMD-V? >
Hello there, we have also just switched to virtualization, and we are using Citrix XenServer, it's free. We were running on a Dell PowerEdge 750, which uses an old 2.4 dualcore Xeon chip. I would have a look at that, it is really quite fantastic, and I think it runs on any chip, but for Windows, you need the hardware virtualization. I know Virtualbox will run anything on anything, so that's also worth a try. Feel free to give me a bell for any info. HTH, Kris Douglas, NODE Computer Systems Servers - PCs - Design - Administration M. 07728574285 Please consider the environment before you print this E-Mail. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
