[GRLUG] Virtual OS in Linux

[Colin Vallance]

Are you running anything that uses attached storage or is it all  
contained in the vm's themselves?  I know the footprint is much  
smaller, is that a small partition to boot from and then remaining  
disk space is formatted for VM storage?  My project is to setup an  
archival system so I'm looking to be able to store files in a RAID5  
(external storage most likely).

I also heard you could edit inetd.conf to get ssh running for console  
based configuration.


On Dec 10, 2008, at 11:38 AM, Bruce Smith wrote:

>> Has anyone use VMWare ESXi in production yet?  I've got a few boxes
>> running Ubuntu with VMWare server but I'm wondering what "real world"
>> differences are.  I've also been tasked with proposing a method to  
>> use
>> VMWare to sell my company's product so ESXi knowledge would be great.
>
> I have 3 ESXi boxes running production servers.  Stable, no  
> complaints.
>
> ESXi has a smaller footprint than VMware server, has a faster native
> filesystem, making it faster overall.
>
> Check the HCL, as a limited amount of hardware is supported to run  
> ESXi.
>
> The major downside in a Linux environment is you can only manage ESXi
> from a Windows box, as the VMware Infrastructure client is Windows
> only.
>
> - BS
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