virtualbox.org

Hello Guys,

We are moving all our phone servers over to a Datacenter and I want to run Multiple VB on a 12 Core Dell Server and host all our PBX servers in VB on it. Which operating system would be the best to run Multiple VBs on?

Which version? Should I run all the VB on SBS, Windows 7 Pro, Windows 8, Linux? or what?

Little help if you guys can please.

-----
Thanks You & God Bless,
Anthony Diehlman
FAIL SAFE SYSTEMS INC.

You're going to get all kinds of suggestions with this but I can tell you that the most stable VirtualBox I have ever had runs on Linux, Debian based.
So there is my 2 cents.

So u like Debian over Centos 6?

I don't think the Linux distribution matters as long as you chose one of the major ones.
Just use the Linux you are most familiar with.

I said the most stable with VirtualBox. I build my own but if you wanted to install pre-build binaries of VirtualBox on CentOS you would need to use a different (rpm based) version like Fedora or the All distributions package since VirtualBox does not build a CentOS package.

What would it run better on windows 7 pro or Ubuntu?

between Windows 7 & Ubuntu? : Ubuntu, the server edition.

Holy Crap I forgot how much of a pain it is to do everything in shell. I am going to test different ideas. I am going to try Ubuntu server with desktop GUI installed.

Any other platforms I should try? I have 2 weeks before the
R620 Dell Server gets here

2x 6 Core Server
2x 300GB 15k Drives
32 GB ECC Ram
Dual Power Supplies
Other addons also.

Why burden the host with a GUI? If you can't or must use help install webmin instead.
In either case if you are going to install a GUI you might as well use the desktop version of what ever host you want. Just realise that the GUI DT takes a lot of resources.

Webmin? Been so long since I have done this.

Not really worried about resources I will have 12 cores lol

I will say it: Solaris. While I have not followed the Linux world for a while, Solaris has amazing abilities to virtualize resources.

ZFS allows any number of disks to be lashed together as a single drive then sliced up into any number of volumes or filesystems, all with provable data integrity. The disks can be configured for any balance among iops, throughput, redundancy and total storage while snapshots have no impact to production (the machine I am using right now has 3561 snapshots and runs as if it had zero snapshots) and allow true point-in-time backups.

Zones let you partition and configure any number of virtual machines, each with their own packages, users, virtual network devices and root filesystems, but share a common kernel, so they run at native speeds. Hard limits can be placed on RAM and CPU for each zone. I have installed several pre-built VirtualBox Linux appliances, each in their own zone.

The Crossbow networking stack eliminates the need to use any VirtualBox networking voodoo such as host-only. Any number of physical NICs can be lashed together (for performance and redundancy) then sliced up into any number of virtual NICs, each able to have its own VLAN or bandwidth limits. Virtual switches allow virtual NICs which never touch a physical NIC.

The list goes on and on and on.

Umm.

I will start testing that here soon. Is the OS free? And does it have a GUI? So we will be able to remote into it and all.

Server will be at a DC on 500MB fiber

FAILSAFESYSTEMS wrote:Is the OS free? And does it have a GUI? So we will be able to remote into it and all.

This is a licensed OS. My understanding is that it is freely downloadable for evaluation purposes. It has many GUI components -- I type this from a thin client connected to a Solaris server in a GNOME environment using a Firefox browser. In Unix and Linux, the command line is your friend, so you might want to get comfy with the CLI (command line interface) quickly.

You can start here to learn about Solaris and download it: http://www.oracle.com/Solaris

If you want to dive in and start learning, go here: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26502_01

Enjoy!