[Cialug] What should I be asking?

[Theron Conrey]

1) see my other comment

2)RHEL does a good job with their management tools, but yeah, I'd have to agree Novell/suse makes it easier.

In regards to the windows on Linux /w Xen comment Josh made, ensure that you've got a either:
an Intel chip with VT technology: http://www.intel.com/technology/platform-technology/virtualization/index.htm

or

A proc with AMD's AMD-V tech: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_8796_14287,00.html

Without a chip that supports virtualization extensions you're not getting Windows on Xen.
(As a note, without one of those you can't do full virtualization with Xen anyway, Linux or not)

XenSource, RHEL, suse, Debian, any distro really, can use Xen as a virtualization tool.  It's the work that the companies / groups do to gen up and polish management tools that makes them shine.


-Theron


-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Josh More
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 10:34 AM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] What should I be asking?

I'm not completely sure if I understand what you mean.  I see two options.


1) Installing RHEL on VMWare

I seriously doubt that you'll have problems with this.  VMWare is built to be flexible like this and should support any business-focused OS with a minimum of issues.  RHEL and SLES should work fine out of the box.
Heck, I was able to get SCO OpenServer to virtualize without too much effort.


2) Building a Xen deployment based on RHEL.

This is a different beast, and I will let Theron pipe in here.  I will say that if you Xen instead of VMWare, you will need the latest Intel or AMD chips that support virtualization extensions if you want to do Windows too.  Also, I've heard that the Novell Virtualization tools are better than those that ship with RHEL.  I don't have the personal experience to back that up though.





-Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC
 morej at alliancetechnologies.net
 515-245-7701



>>> "Matt Millard" <gocyclones at eml.cc> 09/26/07 10:19 AM >>>
I've got a meeting this afternoon to discuss adding RHEL to our fairly large VMWare environment that is currently all Windows VM's.  I've twittled the knobs on Xen running on RHEL5, but not more than doing a single install.  I'm just curious what are some things that I should be on the look out for in the VMWare environment that has been built around only installing Windows servers?  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

So glad the VUG is starting up as I'll be getting in deeper sooner than later!

Matt
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