Re: [Xen-users] Which to deploy

[Bart Coninckx <bart.coninckx@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 30 May 2010 14:10:51 Jonathan Tripathy wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I come from a VMWare background so I'm very new to Xen, however since
> it's released under the GPL, Xen suits our requirements very well.
> 
> We are about to co-located our first server in a datacentre a few
> hundred miles away, so we won't have good physical access to the box
> after installation.
> 
> We are very much a Ubuntu shop, and try to use Ubuntu everywhere we can,
> and wish to use Ubuntu on all the DomUs. Stacklet has some Ubuntu images
> which work on Xen 3.x
> 
> When picking a hypervisor/Dom0 distro, I have read a few things that if
> you're new to Xen, you should just install CentOS 5.5 and select the
> "visualisation" option during install, and away you go. I am torn
> between doing this, and installing Ubuntu Server on bare metel and
> compiling and installing Xen 4.0 from scratch. It's a trade off between
> an older, tried & tested codebase to a newer, but more feature rich
> codebase.
> 
> I know that Ubuntu 10.04 comes with a PV DomU kernel (not sure if thats
> pv_ops or not...)
> 
> I would appreciate some advice on what to do. I would really only be
> able to get physical access to the box maybe once every 12-18 months.
> 
> Thanks
> 
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My personal two cents: if something is proven to be trustworthy and it works 
when it leaves your premises, there's no reason for much concern. You 
obviously need to focus on stability in your choice and the distance makes it 
a priority, which can only be rendered relative of you have a power 
distribution unit at your disposal. 

Hope that helps somewhat in the decision process. 

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