Dear Terje! On 11/05/2010 12:51 PM, Terje J. Hanssen wrote:
I won't have a dedicated hardware for the Invis server, at least not in my first 'lab phase' when I have to use my AM3 machine as a combined home workstation and server. Did I hear that's a bad idea :) ... an AM3 box will be invis-heaven ;-)
A couple of days ago my smallest production box was a 2003 HP tc2110 server with a single CPU Pentium-4 1700MHz 3x256MB RAM and slow 7200rpm disks. It was set up as an "pre invis machine" in - hmmm- 2006 or 2007 when Stefan Schaefer released his book "Der Linux Server" which I followed pretty closely back in those days. The machine got replaced just last week (having 400plus days of uptime) - so I assume hardware doesn't matter too much as long as there's sufficient RAM (oder rather fast dedicated swapdisks like a set of 15krpm U320s). I guess for any environment with sub 10 users a PIII-1300 with enough RAM will be plenty .... Cheers Markus
Now and then I have played a little with Xen virtualization on openSUSE, and the SLES/Xen/OES2/W2k3TS evironment works well for us on my workplace, though not configured technically by myself.
Can Invis be installed and run streamlined on a Xen/openSUSE virtual machine (domU), or will this complicate?
I run two virtual invis machines - one on sun's virtualbox (now oracle i believe) for demonstration purposes and the other one is in production on a large scale ESX-cluster at Novartis institutes for biomedical research - both perform exceptionally fine fulfilling all the duties they are meant for ... I don't know XEN too well but I think it'll be all right to run a virtual suse server on a suse host if it works fine on other vendors vm-host products ...... Cheers Markus
Terje J. Hanssen
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