MultiForce
11-03-2013, 06:34 PM
Installed XenServer 6.2 @ work because I needed to get a SonicWall syslog server up (Analyzer). So far it seems to work great but it's not really generating much load so I can't say anything about performance. The VMs are on local storage.
Thinking of using it at home too because I want to be able to test out some Linux stuff and as a noob it's pretty nice to be able to use snapshots and/or export.
Got one i3 3ghz thingy with 8 GB RAM that I can use for FreeNAS and then set up NFS shares for the VMs. Thinking of using two RAID 1 sets, one for a VM who will be used for downloading from usenet and one to use for fun (1-2 VMs I guess). I don't really think that the "download" VM should be sharing storage with the others because of the load.
I guess I need two NICs and load balancing on the FreeNAS though.
Have one FreeNAS box already for storage, so I don't need a lot of space for the VMs.
I do need to buy some HW to run XenServer on but it seems to support most stuff out there so I guess that won't empty the wallet anyway.
Backup isn't really needed, it's more than enough to just export a VM now and then and dump it onto my other FreeNAS box.
Any thoughts or ideas?
Thinking of using it at home too because I want to be able to test out some Linux stuff and as a noob it's pretty nice to be able to use snapshots and/or export.
Got one i3 3ghz thingy with 8 GB RAM that I can use for FreeNAS and then set up NFS shares for the VMs. Thinking of using two RAID 1 sets, one for a VM who will be used for downloading from usenet and one to use for fun (1-2 VMs I guess). I don't really think that the "download" VM should be sharing storage with the others because of the load.
I guess I need two NICs and load balancing on the FreeNAS though.
Have one FreeNAS box already for storage, so I don't need a lot of space for the VMs.
I do need to buy some HW to run XenServer on but it seems to support most stuff out there so I guess that won't empty the wallet anyway.
Backup isn't really needed, it's more than enough to just export a VM now and then and dump it onto my other FreeNAS box.
Any thoughts or ideas?