[Novalug] distro choice for hosting VMware for linux challenged DR
Chris Rogers
chris@servercave.com
Fri Aug 31 15:13:25 EDT 2007
4.x is very stable. GA was last week. Xen always releases good
enterprise code. Have never had an issue. You can still get 3.2 for
use on 32-bit servers if you know the right people to ask... ;)
That is the general thought though... any NEW hardware that anyone would
get would be 64-bit, and easily better than 50% will be VT-enabled.
Chris
gregory pryzby wrote:
> Is 4.x stable or development?
>
> (Too lazy to look it up)
>
> I don't know if you can purchase 32bit servers anymore either...
>
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 10:32:30AM -0400, Chris Rogers wrote:
>> Haven't looked at 4.0 yet have you? The OSS version doesn't really have
>> management tools, they are included in the commercial versions, but
>> again, even the free version has the management tools, and they are
>> damned nice.
>>
>> You are correct about the hardware, though. Xen likes new technology.
>> 4.0 requires 64-bit hardware. If you have 32-bit hardware, you can
>> still run 3.2, and they will support that for a while. Non Intel-VT or
>> AMD-V chips will run paravirtualized linux flavors just fine, but not
>> windows. Chips you want for that function are on their hardware
>> compatibility list.
>
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