On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 06:47:08AM -0700, Obiozor Okeke wrote: > Hi Diana (and Stuart) thanks for all your advice. > > The problem or nut we're > trying to crack is that we're trying to deploy OpenBSD to remote clients and > we wanted an inexpensive but very high reliability system with the flexibility > to change configurations (switch in/out different VMs) and add/modify services > remotely on-the-fly. For example we could upgrade a client from 4.4 to 4.5 > along with all the custom apps and client data packaged in a VM. We would > grab the old 4.4 VM bring it back to our lab, then upgrade and re-configure it > the way we wanted to and drop it back on the ESXi. Then just change the > network configs and switch the old for the new all remotely without ever > visiting the client
No offense, but that's a terrible design. Get yourself two inexpensive systems (5501's are ok) and run them in a failover configuration. You have redundancy and the flexiblity to alternate between releases. Without the headache of middleware patches, an unsupported configuration, etc. -- Jason Dixon DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net/
