Thread: Xenserver compatible hardware

The only input I have is we run VM because our local Linux geek hates Xenserver.

So I run CentOS with the latest whatever vmware server on there.

Is this what you're trying to do?

http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/12/0131243

Here is the deal with Xen...

What you have to worry about is the host OS. If memory serves, my host machine runs a Xen enabled version of Ubuntu. If it likes your hardware in its Xen config, then so will everything else.

However, there is one MAJOR thing to make sure you take care of. MAKE SURE you get an Intel chip with their virtual machine stuff on it (Called Intel-VT). If you don't, everything is done in software, and you will have a huge problem getting "true" virtual partitions to run other machines. If you get a good chip and board, then the CPU itself can partition itself out, making things like running Windows on top of Linux easy as hell.

Overall, once I got it running, I liked it a lot. I ran pretty much all of my servers on one beefy box with a quad core intel chip, an ASUS "VM" motherboard (don't remember the exact model, but it was especially built for this kind of thing), and I think 16 GB of RAM.

Go ahead and PM me, I will give you a ton of other tips.