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On 12/16/2010 7:53 PM, Wayne Johnson wrote:
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12pt;">I looked at VirtualBox, but wasn't too impressed. The
install forced all my NIC to disconnect (expected, but still a
nuisance). No provision to run services in the background (that
I found). <br>
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VMWare Server has been my choice at work for about a year now.
I'm running several Centos, Suse, several copies of Server2k3
and 2k8, Vista, Win7, and even Solaris x86. I run it on a 4gb
Intel dual core Dell system. It's got a few ideocyncracies, but
I've been able to work around them. The Linux version of Server
is not quite ready for prime time. If your not using the exact
version of Centos 5.2 (without update) it's got a few problems.
The browser based admin works great. VMWare Server is free.
Actually I like it better than VMWare Workstation.<br>
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VMware Server isn't really supported anymore so don't hold your
breath for updates. <br>
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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:
12pt;">I also have an ESXi (now VMWare Hypervisor) on a system
at home. Nice but no support for WinRAID or software RAID that
I've found. This system is still being deployed so I have a lot
to learn.<br>
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ESXi doesn't support any type of software RAID. To get storage
redundancy, you'll use multi-path FC, iSCSI, NFS. If you don't have
shared storage, each of your hard drives can be formatted VMFS so
each has a data store; that way for every VM, you can create a
virtual disk on each data store and use software RAID in your guest
OS.<br>
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ESXi is a simple and quick rebuild if that fails and there's very
few configuration files to backup. <br>
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