Re: Re: Going Virtual - A Home Server Experience

[Adrian Merwood <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Overpriced is in the eye of the beholder - just got 6 years use out
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my G4 - I've never managed that with any bit of PC kit that I have=20=20
ever owned (witness the stacks of old PC bits sitting in the cupboard).

BTW I recently read a power users post for VMWare Fusion and=20=20
discovered it has a hidden "headless" mode that gives you a new
view=20=20
option "Headless" that shuts down the GUI portion and leaves the
VM=20=20
running in th background!   Set the machine to startup automatically=20=20
and voila background VMs at startup on Mac OSX.  You can reconnect at=20=20
any time by just selecting the machine from the Fusion library and=20=20
changing the view.

Fanboy?....... Maybe :-)

Adrian

On 13 May 2009, at 12:34, Paul Bendall wrote:

>
>
> One thing with Virualisation that is annoying is you can't=20=20
> virtualise the Mac OS. From my reading this is because the Mac
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> licence forbids installation on non-Apple hardware. Oh well I
might=20=20
> have given MacOS a try but not if I can't virtualise and am
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> to buy their over-priced hardware.
>
> Paul
>
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Martyn Wendon"
<martynwendon@...>=20=20
> wrote:
> >
> > (resending as it didn't seem to make it to the list)
> >
> > I got one of the HP ML115 G5 Opterons, I think they've been
on=20=20
> various
> > offers for the last 5 months or so. Currently 199 at
serversplus=20=20
> dot com.
> >
> > 8GB of RAM from Crucial is about 80.
> >
> > The server comes with a 250GB hard drive but I've got some=20=20
> 10,000rpm Western
> > Digital Raptors left over from another project to put in it and
I've
> > borrowed a couple of gigabit Intel network cards from work.
> >
> > Hopefully it should make a reasonable ESXi platform - there's
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> good blog at
> > techhead dot co dot uk with plenty of information. I like the
idea=20=20
> of a
> > "bare metal" VM server as you've then not got the
underlying OS to=20=20
> worry
> > about.
> >
> > I think that I may actually end up with more virtual servers
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> I had
> > physical servers because it's an ideal opportunity to
consolidate=20=20
> stuff a
> > bit (currently thinking of having separate xAP and xPL
virtual=20=20
> machines as
> > at the moment stuff is spread out all over the place).
> >
> > I'm aiming to go from 6 * 24/7 machines to 2 hopefully! One
will=20=20
> be the
> > ESXi machine running probably 4 VMs continually with another 3
or=20=20
> 4 on
> > demand and the other will probably end up running anything that
I=20=20
> can't
> > "virtualise" i.e. stuff that needs dedicated hardware.
> >
> >
> > Martyn
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mark McCall" <lists@...>
> > To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 4:06 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Going Virtual - A Home Server Experience
> >
> >
> > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:01 PM, Martyn Wendon
> > <martynwendon@...>wrote:
> >
> > > That's a really timely submission, cheers Mark & Paul!
> > >
> > > Yesterday I ordered a quad-core server and 8GB of memory to
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> in it for a
> > > shade over =A3300 to be the basis for VMWare ESXi, now
begins the =
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> process of
> > > consolidating and vitalizing what I can!!
> >
> >
> >
> > Let us know how it goes Martyn.
> >
> > Did you buy a ready built server?
> >
> > M.
> >
> >
> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
>
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