Brent Saner on 19 Oct 2007 06:22:08 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Xen and the art of server maintenance

  • From: "Brent Saner" <brent.saner@gmail.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [PLUG] Xen and the art of server maintenance
  • Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:21:59 -0400
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it looks like it can totally handle virtualization. and if you ask me, that'd be the way i'd go- it's a much better recovery rate from crashes, etc. in the case of failure. instead of one server going down and taking all of the services with it, you can virtualize and if the server(s) go down, just restart XEN- no need to restart the host machine itself (unless, of course, it itself gets compromised. then you're boned.)

just don't go hosting 600 users at once on this thing or anything like that. haha

(you will, however, totally want a separate box completely dedicated to asterisk. trust me.)

On 10/19/07, Matthew Rosewarne <mrosewarne@inoutbox.com> wrote:
On Friday 19 October 2007, Brent Saner wrote:
> i'd say the hardware you're using has a HUGE impact on this decision. some
> details?

Opteron 1212 (VT-capable)
Tyan Tomcat H1000s
2GB 667 DDR2 (for now)
3x 160GB 7200RPM (each on separate channel, RAID-5)
2x onboard GigE

The load on the machine won't be very large, it's probably massive overkill.

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