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Wed, Aug 23rd 5:47pm 2006: Linux
Went to the Suse Linux Enterprise [Desktop | Server] 10 launch bash put on in Melbourne this morning by Novell, and I've got to admit that it's damn impressive. Most of my time over the last month has been setting up Xen-based virtualization for IVT's new hosting infrastructure at Verizon, and I've done it all with Ubuntu which has lead to some pain when it comes to the storage side of things. I'm running VM images stored on an NFS server, with the Xen hosts mounting an export with all the VM roots in it. Works fine but took a bit of work to get going, and it makes things like storage failover quite hard to manage.
The work Novell have put into SLES makes all that stuff a piece of cake. Not only do they ship Xen kernels (which a few people are doing now) but they've gone the extra mile and included really polished support for iSCSI, heartbeat, DRDB, and all the other little bits you need to build a proper HA system. Xen on its own is all fine and well when you're running a couple of VMs on one box, but when you're building a server farm with a bunch of front-end machines, multiple storage machines, multipath routing, and automatic failover it's a whole different story. Seeing how easy SLES 10 makes it was a real eye opener.
Went to the Suse Linux Enterprise [Desktop | Server] 10 launch bash put on in Melbourne this morning by Novell, and I've got to admit that it's damn impressive. Most of my time over the last month has been setting up Xen-based virtualization for IVT's new hosting infrastructure at Verizon, and I've done it all with Ubuntu which has lead to some pain when it comes to the storage side of things. I'm running VM images stored on an NFS server, with the Xen hosts mounting an export with all the VM roots in it. Works fine but took a bit of work to get going, and it makes things like storage failover quite hard to manage.
The work Novell have put into SLES makes all that stuff a piece of cake. Not only do they ship Xen kernels (which a few people are doing now) but they've gone the extra mile and included really polished support for iSCSI, heartbeat, DRDB, and all the other little bits you need to build a proper HA system. Xen on its own is all fine and well when you're running a couple of VMs on one box, but when you're building a server farm with a bunch of front-end machines, multiple storage machines, multipath routing, and automatic failover it's a whole different story. Seeing how easy SLES 10 makes it was a real eye opener.
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