RE: Virtualisation

[David Balharrie <davidj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Wayne,
Memory is the most important thing with virtualisation. I would recommend
8GB of ram, but you might be able to get away with 4GB if you're only going
to put 3-4 VM's on there.  For processors look at Core 2 Duo or Quad. Again
depending on how many VM's your going to have and what they will be doing.

I currently use VMware Server on Windows Server 2003 standard 64bit, but
I'm looking to move to ESXi. It's still free as is the Converter. ESXi is
picky about the hardware it will run on, but as it's a bare metal
installation it has better performance.  There is a whitebox list here to
help with what will work with ESXi http://ultimatewhitebox.com/index

The first few % of the VMware Converter  process is normally when it
creates the virtual disk files to copy the server to.  The log should
indicate what it has got stuck on.  I have only done P2V's on Windows boxes
before so I don't know how well the process works on Linux.  Another option
would be to use a product like Acronis TrueImage.  You can take a system
image and restore this back to a new VM.  If you still have trouble drop me
a email offlist and I will try to help.

Dave

From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wayne
Sent: 03 May 2009 20:33
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Virtualisation

Guys,

Which versions of VMWare are you using here? - This thread has sparked
me into cranking up my dell server that has ESXi running on it - not
that I am having any great success with it!

I've got a lowly 486 that's been running Asterisk pbx on Linux for near
on 5 years - I bought a dell server for a while ago (2gh dual core
pentium - way ample!) to replace it but I've not got around to
configuring it up yet. I was going to just have it as a new Asterisk box
but thought I would have a play with ESXi when VMware were giving away
licences for it (I think they still are tbh?). I'm getting stuck at
virtualising the linux box. Managed to grab a copy of VMWare Converter
(again a freebee) - it just gets stuck at 1% (after 20mins or so!)...

If you have any tips - :)

Cheers!
Wayne.

David Balharrie wrote:
> I would expect this to put around 15% CPU load onto a single core box
as it's just needing to record the MPEG stream. It would be interesting to
hear if anyone on the list has one of these. Sadly there doesn't appear to
be a cable or satellite version for the UK yet.
>
> Dave
>
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx<mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
[mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx<mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>]
On Behalf Of Martyn Wendon
> Sent: 01 May 2009 19:03
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx<mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Virtualisation
>
> Thanks Dave, the HDHomeRun looks viable, although I wonder what load
> "recording" puts on the host PC? I currently use GBPVR on a
Windows 2003
> server machine with 2 freeview and 1 cable tuner cards and recording 2
> freeview transport streams and 1 program on the cable tuner
simultaneously
> puts neglible load on the machine.
>
> Martyn
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Balharrie" <davidj@xxxxxxx<mailto:davidj%40creativeview.co.uk><mailto:davidj%40creativeview.co.uk>>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx<mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com><mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>>
> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 1:45 PM
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Virtualisation
>
>
>> 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
>>
>>
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