Hi Ben. I appreciate your answer. I was expecting to be able to install kvm, sshd, and openNebula on the same hardware. As I would not need to provide many different technologies. I think that I would have maybe 4 VM at the same time, but the virtual processor will be most of the time sleeping.
Will this be in some software related conflict ? Or your recommendation is due to the load ? It sounds that the method you describe, involves the same procedures as installing openNebula. Kind regards, Diego 2011/10/26 Ben Tullis <[email protected]>: > Hi Diego, > > I don't think that OpenNebula is likely to be the best tool for the job > in this case, as it is more geared towards on-demand cloud computing. > > However, it does sound like you could really benefit from virtualization > in the office. The way I would approach your situation is as follows. > > Make sure that the machine you're going to use as a server has hardware > virtualization support built in. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_VT#Processor > > Use disks in pairs of equal sizes, then install Linux and configure > software RAID1 so that the system will be able to withstand a failure in > any disk. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mdadm > > Install a hypervisor to enable you to run many concurrent virtual > machines. You might like to consider KVM, Xen and Virtualbox. > http://www.linux-kvm.org > http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/ > http://virtualbox.org > > You can then define virtual machines and install Windows onto them, in > order to make them available to your colleagues. You can use normal > Windows system management techniques (such as sysprep) to deploy > pre-configured Windows system images, thereby saving you time. You could > then use VNC to make these virtual machines available to your staff, in > the manner that you suggest. > > I'm currently looking at building an OpenNebula cluster to support a > small-business requirement, but I can't really see that there is any way > of ensuring high-availability in any system with fewer than four > physical servers in it. I think you'd be making things unnecessarily > hard for yourself if you tried to do it all on one server. > > I hope that helps. > > Kind regards, > Ben > > -- > |Ben Tullis > |Tiger Computing Ltd > |"Linux for Business" > | > |Tel: 033 0088 1511 > |Web: http://www.tiger-computing.co.uk > | > |Registered in England. Company number: 3389961 > |Registered address: Wyastone Business Park, > |Wyastone Leys, Monmouth, NP25 3SR > > > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org
