On 09/16/2011 01:10 PM, Ed Heron wrote: > I've been considering this type of setup for a distributed > virtualization setup. I have several small locations and we would be > more comfortable having a host in each. > > I was nervous about running the firewall as a virtual machine, though > if nobody screams bloody murder, I'll start exploring it further as it > could reduce machine count at each location by 2 (backup fw). I've been running IPCop as a VM for a few years now. Works like a charm. You can set up VPNs between IPCop VMs as well if you like, effectively bridging LANs at each location. Just be sure that subnets are distinct at each location. I like less hardware. Fewer points of failure means more reliability (with the exception of redundant parts of course) as well as cost savings. > I'm not as paranoid about the host providing storage to the VM's > directly, for booting. There might be a good reason for doing so that hasn't occurred to me. I wouldn't lose much sleep over it. Whatever works. ;) > I'm considering using DRBD to replicate storage on 2 identical hosts > to allow fail-over in the case of a host hardware failure. A fine idea, if you can swing it. To be honest though, with the HDDs on raid-1, the likelihood of failure is rather small. Depending on your cost of down time, it might do just as well to have spare parts (or a spare machine) standing by cold. Depends on the business need though. I do like having spare hardware at hand in any case. > What kind of VM management tool do you use; VMM or something else? As I said, I've been using VMware Server up to this point, so I've been using that web interface primarily, with cli configuration editing where needed. As I'll be migrating to KDE/CentOS very soon, does anyone have recommendations? TIA. -- -Eric 'shubes' _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
