On 02/10/12 08:28, Tony Cowderoy wrote:
I second KVM. I've been running it on Ubuntu Lucid with LVM managing
storage for about a year now and it has worked very well for me. When I've
needed them, I've even had assorted versions of Windows and MS-DOS running
on it. However, I can't comment on native Linux GUI management tools,
because I'm happy with virsh on the command line.
This was my next thought.
Same question applies though: can someone suggest a good (cheap) mobo/CPU
combo? I'm out of touch when it comes to CPUs these days. I'd say I have a
budget of around £100 for mobo and CPU, on the assumption that will get me
something with virtualisation support and better performance than the P4D it
would replace.
If I go with KVM, will that work on top of software RAID? Ie I create a RAID10
software array at the host O/S level and create VMs on top of it? (That's
something that vSphere can't do.) If not then I'm going to need suitable RAID
hardware suggestions as well. (To be clear: I don't specifically need RAID10,
I just want to make sure that the loss of any one of my 4 HDDs won't cause me
data loss in any of my VMs.)
I'm happy with cmdline management.
Mark
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