[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-users] Xen/Pizzbox Server Testimonial Request
> At the company where I presently work, we are looking at getting new > 1U (pizza-box) servers, which would be dual-processor affairs that we > want to run Xen on (with one domU pinned to each CPU). They'd be of > typical server stats... fairly high-end processors, a decent amount of > RAM, and so forth. > > Up until a week ago, the fore-runner was Dell, with their PowerEdge > line of Xeon-based servers. However, in the past week/two-weeks I > have seen a fair number of complaints about Dell/making them work with > Xen, and so forth. Now, I am sure there are workarounds, and ways to > make things work, and so on... but we haven't purchased (or committed > to purchase) anything yet, and ideally I would like for what we do > purchase to work as easily and stably as possible. > > So, I thought I would ask: what are people "out there" running > Xen/Linux on? What is the easiest 1U server (dual-processor, 1-2GB of > RAM, etc.) that you can think of to get Xen/Linux to run (and run > _well_) on, with a minimum of playing with this module/upgrading that > program or library, and so forth. > > If it matters, we run Debian in-house, so we'll be setting these boxes > up with Debian Sarge. > > Note that we aren't necessarily looking for Intel processors... if > there are some good AMD servers out there that work exceptionally well > with Xen/Linux, then we'd be happy to consider them. > > Thanks for whatever insights and/or suggestions you can offer on this. > > -- Remi Broemeling > We run a mix of dell 1750's and ASA Computers Supermicro boxes for our QA lab, we like the ASA systems because the stock xen kernel works with them and they have 6 memory slots and 4 SCA drive bays, my definite preference over the Dells- here's the barebones system link on their site- http://asacomputers.com/product.asp?pf_id=ASA%5F6013P%2DT _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
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