[Novalug] distro choice for hosting VMware for linux challenged DR

[Mike Shade]

If you are looking at serious infrastructure stuff, I too second the 
nomination for ESX, which is now VI3 (VMWare Infrastructure 3).  This is 
bad ass stuff, but is its own operating system, so to speak -- although 
RedHat Linux derived.

Otherwise, I would suggest running VMWare server on CentOS or RHEL.

I'm a little puzzled as to why you would want the VMWare hosts on a 
domain at all.  Better to keep them off the domain and just let the 
guest servers join.  Most of the administration for VMware server can be 
done through a web console, anyway.  This is no less secure, and I'd 
argue, perhaps more secure.

-- Mike

Anthony Soucek wrote:
> attempting to subtly migrate the public sector toward open source.
> They like the idea of hardware independant DR.  I am looking for a
> distro of linux that installs easy and runs VMWare server efficiently
> and securely.    Have fiddled with openSuse, & fedora 8.  Either the
> Suse OS freezes when I apply updates or fedora  wont join the domain.
> Is there a different distro I should be using for this purpose?  Is
> there a tutorial or rpm for vmware?  plan is to run the vmware P2v
> converter and create virtual windows  server guest  to run on linux
> vmware hosts as DR backups for 911 services and such.  I am shell
> challenged and any advice would be appreciated.
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