On 06/01/12 19:55, Scott Dowdle wrote: Fair points, but FWIW...
We run OpenVZ hardware nodes on Debian, because: > Debian isn't supported very long... about 3 years (from initial release). > RHEL6 will be supported for some time. > Debian lets you easily and reliably upgrade in-place to the next release. > I know one of the advantages of Debian is that it is a fantastic server OS > with a large library of software... which you don't care about for an OpenVZ > host node. > I'm not sure where EPEL is these days, but we run the following packages on our hardware nodes, which aren't packaged with EL5 (not so sure about RHEL6 - maybe a couple of those are in there now): smartd logcheck munin ipmitool pacemaker+heartbeat drbd puppet arno-iptables-firewall ... and probably a few others which I've forgotten about. I know that several of those are 3rd-party packaged for RHEL5/6, but then you're losing a lot of the "it's-guaranteed-supported-for-ages" benefit anyway, and you've got to fart about researching and tracking down software, and you're arguably worsening your security as a result too? No? Cheers, Tim. -- South East Open Source Solutions Limited Registered in England and Wales with company number 06134732. Registered Office: 2 Powell Gardens, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1TQ VAT number: 900 6633 53 http://seoss.co.uk/ +44-(0)1273-808309 _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@openvz.org https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users
