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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Steven Coté wrote: > It's definitely better to keep services on separate machines, but if > paring down to a single physical box is what you have to do, then maybe > virtualisation is the way to go. > > Without knowing why the boss wants to get rid of the other fileserver, > it's hard to know if that will solve your problem, but it's definitely > worth looking at. > > By doing this, you could set up 3 different virtual machines, one for > the intranet, one for the fileserver and one for the app server. Each > would appear to be a completely different computer, but they all share > the same physical resources. This is important to remember. The virtual machines are all sharing the same CPU, memory bandwidth, network bandwidth, disk bandwidth, etc of the actual machine. The actual OS of the machine is also going to take a share of machines resources. If more than one of the VMs is likely to make intensive use of the same resource then things can come unstuck. As well it being quite possible that a single machine powerful enough would be more expensive than 3 machines speced appropriatly. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJMXB+soRLMhsZpFcRAlhZAJ9g9rbXgApQl4sKi3KrjElFci/83gCfRLZ6 5UlRZd0JmzbqZuVJ0SMt9Gk= =SyNq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html