Re: Going Virtual - A Home Server Experience

["Ben McCormack" <yahoogroup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul

You can virtualize OSX Server

Parallels Server - http://www.parallels.com/products/server/mac/features/
'Virtualize Mac OS X Server, Windows, Linux and more with support for 32-
a=
nd 64-bit platform and guest OS support'
or
http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2008/01/virtual-leopa-1.html

I have used this in the past and it seems to work well

Hope this helps
Ben

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