<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Richard Bronosky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Richard@bronosky.com">Richard@bronosky.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Wow, great responses! I haven't finished reading them all yet, but I<br>
want to get some additional info out there real quick. I WILL read<br>
every comment and study every topic/command/link. You are all much<br>
appreciated.<br>
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1. We have about 12 physical boxes out there.<br>
2. We pay for RedHat support, have a bunch of licenses, and even<br>
though I prefer apt... that's the way it is.<br>
3. When I came into this new decision making role we had no<br>
virtualization, no LVM. I chose [free] Xen because a) it _was_ the<br>
RedHat way, b) I have expertise on my team.<br>
4. We don't have X installed on any of our servers and I plan to keep<br>
it that way.<br>
5. The machines all have a public NIC that are firewalled to only be<br>
accessable from my company's network (except the web servers with wide<br>
open port 80/443)<br>
6. The machines all have a private NIC that goes directly to a [rented<br>
(argh!)] Gigabit switch, using the 10.10 network.<br>
7. My goal is to virtualize the whole pool. We have done 3 so far. We<br>
have got the process pretty slick, except for the part where we have<br>
to ask Peer1 to do anything. At this point the only thing we ever ask<br>
is "reinstall RHEL5 with LVM and volumes like..."<br>
<br>
I hope that helps. Thanks again!<br>
<br>
.!# RichardBronosky #!.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Richard,</div><div><br></div><div>Just wanted to make a comment on Xen, RHEL 5 is still going to be supported for another 5 years. I have it on good authority that while RHEL 6 will likely have KVM as it's hypervisor, it'll still support Xen VMs (at least paravirt), but as RHEL 6 isn't released yet, all that is subject to change...</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you wanted to get KVM experience pre RHEL6, it's in Fedora 10 and the now in beta Fedora 11.</div><div><br></div><div>-Scott </div></div><br>