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On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:01:41PM -0400, cschoon@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I am a consultant for a large law firm in Orlando, Fl. I have been
> asked to do some research into Linux Clustering. to be specific, the
> vision is to setup a linux cluster, run VMWare on the cluster, then
> run Microsoft / Novell servers in VMWare.
>
> If that is possible, then is it possible to add all 200+ workstations
> to the cluster and run the desktop OS (Win XP / Win 98) on top of
> that? Thus creating a cluster in the neighborhood of 243 nodes.
Lets back up a second.
VMware is a tool that allows you to run a set of virtual
machines on one physical machine. VMware ESX has the concept of
a 'cluster' whereby VMs will automatically migrate between
physical machines to balance load, or automatically reboot onto
a working node if the primary as failed. This feature requires
that all of the servers involved used a shared storage device.
For server applications, you could certainly run the servers
inside a VMWare VM.
Assuming you had multiple VMs performing a given webhosting
task, you could use Linux LVS to balance the incoming traffic
across them.
However, Linux LVS doesn't have the concept of 'adding machines
to a cluster' in the same sense that a NUMA supercomputer can add
nodes and treat them as a single large image. The physical
machines are still disparate.
I don't know that it makes any sense to have your desktops /
workstations run VMWare and then run Windows on top of it. It
would make more sense to have your desktops run a cut down
Windows natively, then RDP into a VM running on dedicated VMWare
servers.
Perhaps you could give us a better idea of what you are trying
to accomplish?
- -Jason Martin
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