[COLUG] February Meeting solicitations

[Scott Merrill]

Joe Whipple wrote:
> The most used resources in order I have found are:
> RAM
> Drive Space
> CPU
> 
> I would plan any servers with this in consideration, as VM's eat ram
> like candy. I have had no issues with CPU usage, but most of my servers
> are dual 3.8Ghz Xeons with dual cores :)

Our current host machine is a dual-core AMD Opteron 2.4 GHz with 2 GB
physical RAM.  I've got a base Debian Etch install running VMWare server.

The intent is to run low-resource services in virtual machines to make
it easy to manage / migrate / recover.  Our plan is to run ISC DHCPd on
one VM; DNS on another.  I'm considering independent VMs for httpd and
smtpd (on another host machine) as well.  Most of these services are not
particularly memory hungry, so a VM with 256MB RAM ought to suffice.
Web and mail probably some additional breathing room, which is why I'm
interested in other people's experiences to date.

I'm planning on using Debian as the guest VMs as well, since the base
install is under 400 megs, and no unnecessary services are installed.  I
recognize that Debian is not a "blessed" distribution from VMWare for
either host or guest OS; but the savings in resources makes it a more
attractive option for me.

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