Greetings Gino, I tend to agree with Miguel. There are two things I worry about when considering building a virtualization capability. One is product of the servers themselves. Namely, do I have a complete package for remote control and managing the cluster? The other is properties of virtualization. Oddly enough, this is one thing I have liked about Apple's server and client product in the fact that you can have labs, offices, and racks full of Macs (be they Minis, XServs, Mac Pros, iMacs, or Mac Books) and I have such a huge influence over the cluster and the file system spread is pretty good. Given something like VMWare's vSphere or Parallel's server for Mini's and a file system like XSan, one could in principle have a cluster with a complete virtualization capability for both one's office, lab, and cloud space. Thus one gets all three bangs for the buck, literally.
One thing I am considering is virtualization in a more geographically dispersed scenario. In such a situation, XSan and similar file systems are only partially possible. It is more practical to distribute some of the servers to meet user need. Thus in my case, utilization of the entire grid becomes a consideration. Also, if I have the Apple variety I can provide a set of virtual Macs for cases where a person is trying to develop on an iPad while in the passenger seat of a car. That may be wild, but it is one way to provide a consistent WOLips environment and a collection of virtual Linux machines. Just a though, Dan On Dec 22, 2011, at 9:31 AM, Pascal Robert wrote: > > Le 2011-12-22 à 12:25, Miguel Arroz a écrit : > >> Hi, >> >> In my university we had good experiences with HP servers. One advantage is >> their rack rails are the best I've seen. No screws, just pop them in, and >> slide in the server. Very practical. >> >> Anyway, make sure you buy a server with CPUs that allow virtualization. >> Although Apple makes sure all the CPUs in their machines are capable of >> running virtualized systems, other manufactures might not do that. Some >> Intel CPUs do not support virtualization, you don't want those. > > Xen on Linux can run on anything "Core" or Xeon, but true, VMWare ESX is > quite picky. Any hardware listed here is good: > > > http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1003661 > >> Regards, >> >> Miguel Arroz >> >> On 2011-12-22, at 7:44 AM, Gino Pacitti wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> What sort of machine would be best to buy to use for Linux Virtualization? >>> >>> Any thoughts? >>> >>> Gino >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >>> Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) >>> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >>> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/arroz%40guiamac.com >>> >>> This email sent to ar...@guiamac.com >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >> Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/probert%40macti.ca >> >> This email sent to prob...@macti.ca > > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/danielbeatty%40mac.com > > This email sent to danielbea...@mac.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list (Webobjects-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
