RE: Virtualisation

[David Balharrie <davidj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Martyn,
I have virtualised the severs I have with VMware Server and had great
success. The only issues I have had is with Geovision & DTV capture
cards.  I'm going to try out a IP server box to allow me to remove
Geovision. For DTV capture cards I'm looking at this device HDHomeRun - http://tinyurl.com/c5xz6w

Regards,
Dave

From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martyn
Wendon
Sent: 30 April 2009 19:54
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Virtualisation

Having just replaced my main desktop pc (P4 3.8 of 4 years vintage) and
21"
CRT monitors with a modern decent laptop and a couple of LCD screens, I was
surprised at just how much my electricity usage has dropped (from baseline
of 2.2KWh to 1.7KWh)!

So now I'm on an electricity economy drive and figure that the next thing
to
look at is potentially virtualising some or all of the various servers
here.

Currently I'm running:

Shadow IDS (3 nics)
Trixbox PBX (no extra hardware as all phones are IP)
Windows SBS / Exchange / DC / etc (2 nics)
Zoneminder (16 ch capture card)
HA server (loads of serial ports on pci cards)
Media server (bluetooth dongle, tv capture cards)

All on separate machines, mainly P4s of 3-4 years vintage.

I know that some of you have followed a similar route so I'm seeking advice
/ ideas / gotchas and general information / success (!) stories, especially
in how to make hardware such as capture cards available to a virtual
machine?

Cheers,

Martyn



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