On 04/06/10 23:59, Kris Douglas wrote: > On 4 June 2010 19:28, Rob Beard<r...@esdelle.co.uk> wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> At work we're looking at server virtualization, both to give us a bit >> more redundancy against hardware failure and also to try and cut down on >> our power requirements a bit by getting shot of some older servers (P3, >> early P4's). >> >> Now we already have two IBM x Series servers which are going on about 4 >> years old. The idea is to maybe replace these with something a bit >> newer and then re-use them for less mission critical uses. >> >> These servers have the old P4 based Xeons in them running at 3GHz. >> According to Intel's web site they don't support Intel-VT technology but >> they are 64-Bit capable (IIRC they support EM64T). In the past I've >> played around with VMWare Server running on top of Linux (and Windows), >> in fact at home I have it running happy on my server with a couple of >> VM's chugging away. >> >> What I'd like to do though is use some bare metal virtualization. I >> gather the newer virtualization software such as Microsoft Hyper-V, >> VMWare ESXi and KVM all require Intel-VT technology or AMD-V. I >> wondered if anyone knew of any bare metal virtualization software that >> supports the older CPUs? >> >> I'm pretty certain an older version of ESXi did although when I last >> tried it a couple of years back it didn't support the hardware I tried >> it on (a bog standard Phenom X4 desktop PC). I can't for the life of me >> find a download link for the older ESXi software (which I believe VMWare >> were starting to give away). >> >> So before I give up, does anyone know of anything that would be suitable >> which doesn't require Intel-VT or AMD-V? >> > > Hello there, we have also just switched to virtualization, and we are > using Citrix XenServer, it's free. We were running on a Dell PowerEdge > 750, which uses an old 2.4 dualcore Xeon chip. I would have a look at > that, it is really quite fantastic, and I think it runs on any chip, > but for Windows, you need the hardware virtualization. I know > Virtualbox will run anything on anything, so that's also worth a try. > > Feel free to give me a bell for any info. > > HTH, > Kris Douglas, >
Thanks Chris, I'll check Xen out, it's been a while since I last looked at it. Long term I'm hoping to get a couple of new servers (an extended warranty for out existing servers is pretty pricey and the performance increase we'd get from a newer server would be useful). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
