Hi Everyone, I come from a VMWare background so I''m very new to Xen, however since it''s released under the GPL, Xen suits our requirements very well. We are about to co-located our first server in a datacentre a few hundred miles away, so we won''t have good physical access to the box after installation. We are very much a Ubuntu shop, and try to use Ubuntu everywhere we can, and wish to use Ubuntu on all the DomUs. Stacklet has some Ubuntu images which work on Xen 3.x When picking a hypervisor/Dom0 distro, I have read a few things that if you''re new to Xen, you should just install CentOS 5.5 and select the "visualisation" option during install, and away you go. I am torn between doing this, and installing Ubuntu Server on bare metel and compiling and installing Xen 4.0 from scratch. It''s a trade off between an older, tried & tested codebase to a newer, but more feature rich codebase. I know that Ubuntu 10.04 comes with a PV DomU kernel (not sure if thats pv_ops or not...) I would appreciate some advice on what to do. I would really only be able to get physical access to the box maybe once every 12-18 months. Thanks _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On Sunday 30 May 2010 14:10:51 Jonathan Tripathy wrote:> Hi Everyone, > > I come from a VMWare background so I''m very new to Xen, however since > it''s released under the GPL, Xen suits our requirements very well. > > We are about to co-located our first server in a datacentre a few > hundred miles away, so we won''t have good physical access to the box > after installation. > > We are very much a Ubuntu shop, and try to use Ubuntu everywhere we can, > and wish to use Ubuntu on all the DomUs. Stacklet has some Ubuntu images > which work on Xen 3.x > > When picking a hypervisor/Dom0 distro, I have read a few things that if > you''re new to Xen, you should just install CentOS 5.5 and select the > "visualisation" option during install, and away you go. I am torn > between doing this, and installing Ubuntu Server on bare metel and > compiling and installing Xen 4.0 from scratch. It''s a trade off between > an older, tried & tested codebase to a newer, but more feature rich > codebase. > > I know that Ubuntu 10.04 comes with a PV DomU kernel (not sure if thats > pv_ops or not...) > > I would appreciate some advice on what to do. I would really only be > able to get physical access to the box maybe once every 12-18 months. > > Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-users mailing list > Xen-users@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users >My personal two cents: if something is proven to be trustworthy and it works when it leaves your premises, there''s no reason for much concern. You obviously need to focus on stability in your choice and the distance makes it a priority, which can only be rendered relative of you have a power distribution unit at your disposal. Hope that helps somewhat in the decision process. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> My personal two cents: if something is proven to be trustworthy and it works > when it leaves your premises, there''s no reason for much concern. You > obviously need to focus on stability in your choice and the distance makes it > a priority, which can only be rendered relative of you have a power > distribution unit at your disposal. > > Hope that helps somewhat in the decision process. >Thanks. The co-lo folks have offered free reboots, however no console access from VGA port without a visit. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
> We are about to co-located our first server in a datacentre a few hundred > miles away, so we won''t have good physical access to the box after > installation. > ... > I would appreciate some advice on what to do. I would really only be able > to get physical access to the box maybe once every 12-18 months.For remote installations like this, I recommend that you deploy a machine that supports console and virtual media access via IPMI. It really is a lifesaver. This would also allow you to switch installs later, should you need to. Among the relatively inexpensive solutions are those based on Supermicro barebones configurations such as the 6016T-NTF. -John _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users