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Hi all, |
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I'm looking into virtualizing my servers (all 3 of them), and am a |
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little confused as to the differences between Xen and XenServer... |
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First - I want to use a bare metal hypervisor that supports the following: |
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1. Can be installed on a USB FLASH drive (I have some Dell Poweredge |
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2970 servers with the internal USB slot for just this purpose), and |
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2. Fully supports both Windows Server 2008 (our Domain Controller), and |
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Gentoo Linux (our mail and web servers). |
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By 'fully' above, I mean, I can install the guest tools/additions, so |
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I'll be able to safely manage the VMs (shutdown in case of an extended |
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power failure, snapshots, migrations, etc) |
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I can't seem to find an ebuild for the xenserver tools, and when looking |
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found out about Xen (I had thought that it went away a long time ago)... |
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Anyway, looking for any pointers from anyone currently running either of |
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the two... |
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Thanks, |
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Charles |
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