Date: Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:26:01 +0100 From: Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org Subject: Re: Recommendation for Hyervisor to host FreeBSD Message-ID: <E1Smn0L-0009VM-CN@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <op.wgy2m42b8527sy@ronaldradial.versatec.local>
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> It helps if you tell people what you are looking for. Ah, sorry, just dashed that off before I went into a meeting, here's a bit more info. > - realtime moving of guests between host-servers? > - do you really need separate OS'es or would jails serve your purposes? > - Are you only going to run FreeBSD on FreeBSD or also Linux or Windows on > FreeBSD? Currently we have a nice farm of real machines with exonetric - I have a pair of machines for a datase, using hast to duplicate the storage and allow fast flipping from one to the other, a pair of machines acting as firewalls using carp for failover and nginx to load balance, and a set of boxes acting as a web farm. I have a requirement to duplicate this - which I was intending to do using a 2nd set of physical machines. people who know about money are rather alarmed at the cost of doing so, and have also noticed that virtual machines are pretty cheap, hence have asked me if I could do it using a set of virtual machines. So, am looking to try and mirror a physical setup, which involves hast and carp, on a set of virtual machines, bought in from some extermal supplier (probably one more used to hosting Windows). Thats the spec :_0 Thanks for all the suggestions so far BTW - the comments on VMWare ESX are interesting (especially http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=168416) as I did have one place I could get a set of such machines in a very cost effective way. -pete.
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