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Re: [lvs-users] LVS Uses

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Subject: Re: [lvs-users] LVS Uses
From: "Bryan Richardson" <btricha@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:11:38 -0700
Hi Joe,

Exactly!  I want the sum of all clustered computers to then run multiple
VMWare guest operating systems.

Bryan

On Dec 13, 2007 8:04 AM, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Bryan Richardson wrote:
>
> > Good Morning Sameer,
> >
> > I must not have worded my question very well.  Here's my situation:
> >
> > I have a lab full of a bunch of older, slower computers that aren't
> being
> > used much anymore.
>
> I assume you don't have the option of getting rid of them.
> Power (and cooling), admin salary etc are the dominant cost
> of older machines and you're not getting a lot of compute
> out of them.
>
> > Each one of them is too slow to run more than a single
> > VMWare virtual machine on.  I'm trying to find some Linux clustering
> > software that I can install on the computers such that they all look
> like
> > one computer
>
> you're discussing function here - you want your machines to
> look like one machine to the outside world
>
> > to software that's installed
>
> installed where - clients, your machines?
>
> > such that I can install VMWare Server software and run a
> > multitude of virtual machines on the cluster.
>
> you're discussing implementation here - I don't understand
> these two lines and I don't know the connection to the
> function described above.
>
> Do you want the single machine (the sum of all machines?) to
> then run multiple VMWares?
>
> Joe
>
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