[Xen-users] Xen basic concerns

Axel Jacobs
Tue, 30 May 2006 18:02:14 -0000

Hello,

I''m just starting to explore the possibility of XEN, so my concerns
will
probably be very basic at the first time, sorry for that...

I have some servers running windows and linux, and I mainly would like to
reduce cost of the hardware and reduce the offline time by having some xen
host hardware running all the VM''s. At this time I have some VMservers
running under VMwareServer but i''m not really satisfied by the
performances.

For my test machine I chosed an Asus P5LD2 Deluxe MB with an PentiumD930 for
VT technology, 4Gb Ram an WD Raptor SATA 150Gb disks. In the future I plan
to switch to Asus or Supermicro server boards.

Here are my questions:

1. Is the hardware I picked up a good choice to start dealing with XEN if I
want to have Windows and Linux domU''s ?

2. What would be the best (stable, easy to maintain) distribution  to run
dom0 ? At this time I mainly work with Novell Suse linux.

The novice I am will really apparciate any help available.

Axel


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