Check out the HP c-Class BladeSystems offerings. It is sad that HP is marketing it with virtualization via Vmware. Just disregard the vmware affair.
On 9/21/07, Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello there. > > We have a bunch of obsd firewalls, 8 at the moment, all working nice and > so forth. But we > need to add about another 4 in there for new connections and networks, > which means more > machines to find room for. > > So basically I have been asked to investigate running all these > firewalls in two big boxes, with lots > of NIC's, with a bunch of openbsd vritual machines on them. One main box > for the primary firewalls, > one for the secondary. Each virtual machine getting its own physical NIC. > > Personally I dont really like the idea, I can see things going wrong, > lots of stuff balancing on a > guest os and box. > > Can someone please inform me if this is a really bad idea or not, > ideally with some nice reasoning? > > > Cheers, > Josh
