Hello debian-user, i'm hoping someone can shed some light regarding the current state of virtualization on Debian. Since I like my information first-hand, i thought i'd ask here for some real-world use cases. I am currently gathering some data in order to redesign the network infrastructure of the company i work for. I've been directed by some fellow sysadmins towards ESX and ESXi, but the pricing seems a bit over the top and honestly, i don't know if i actually need the whole thing, also considering that i am not familiar with enterprise-grade virtualization solutions.
Basically i'm looking for a robust system that will allow me to deploy, host and manage virtual machines. The need for different services is growing in my company and having virtual machines for each would be ideal. I'm looking at a really small setup so the performance is not that big of an issue, but i am definitively looking at reliability and flexibility. There will probably be a main physical server running about a dozen machines, not all of them concurrently. Being a corporate enviroment, i am also concerned with data and network security, but i don't really know where i should be looking for informations, as designing a system with no real-use knowledge of the components can be quite a hard task. I've worked with hosting control panels and i like the idea of being able to manage the system through a web browser. To be more specific, i've worked with ISPConfig [1] which has support for OpenVZ containers. I never had to actually use that so far, but from what i saw on the management interface it seems like it would be a pretty simple solution and i like that. The issue is that i need to host Windows server VMs on it and OpenVZ does not seem to be supporting it oob. I am also currently looking at the various pages on the debian wiki on Xen, QEMU, OpenVZ and the suggested softwares to work with virtualization. If you have other valid sources of information, they would be really appreciated. [1] http://www.ispconfig.org/ispconfig-3/ -- Davide Mirtillo Ser. Tec. S.R.L. http://dpidgprinting.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f4c97e7.1010...@ser-tec.org
