[TriLUG] Home Lab Recommendations, Part Deux

[vikram sai balaji ulaganathan via TriLUG]

Hi Alan,
After Ron's suggestions, I tried type 1 VMware and failed to install it due
to network card support issue. Though it recommends a lengthy and mostly
Windows based solution of exsi image builder, it did not suite me. Xen was
good, but wake on lan had issues. So for the time being, I switched to type
2 hypervisor with Ubuntu server. Still having issues with GPU passthrough.

Bottom line try xen if VMware fails
Thanks
Vikram

On Jan 10, 2017 7:41 AM, "Ron Kelley via TriLUG" <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

> Alan,
>
> Your CPU seems to be up to the task.  Personally, I would add more RAM
> (total 16G), add a second SSD (host one VMs on SSD-1 and other VMs on
> SSD-2), and install ESXi 6.0 on a USB thumb drive.  Use the web client to
> install/manage your VMS; you will be all set.  If you are still stuck with
> I/O issues, add a 3rd SSD and host VMs on that one.  If you need data
> storage protection (ie: no loss of data), grab an inexpensive RAID card off
> fleabay (LSI 9260-8i for $130) and create a RAID-5 array.  ESXi works just
> fine with LSI.
>
> If you want to run Docker, LXD, etc; simply spin up a “heavy” VM (4-8G
> RAM, 2 vCPUs, etc) and start hosting containers.  I do this all the time.
>
> -Ron
>
>
> On Jan 9, 2017, at 11:51 PM, Alan Sterger via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
> wrote:
>
> Hello TriLugers,
>
> Another lost soul looking for home lab recommendations.  I have an Intel
> Core2 Quad core Q9550 computer with 8 GB of ram, Gigabit ethernet running
> on a 256 GB SSD.  I can also add more SSDs and/or spinning rust as needed.
>
> My requirements are to run Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) v6.x (RHEL
> w/mods) with Oracle Database 11i.  I also need to run Windows 7 (32-bit)
> Pro, Windows 7 (64-bit) Pro and possibly Windows 10 Pro.  Any VM not needed
> would be shutdown.
>
> I've used two Type-2 hosted hypervisors, VMware Workstation and VirtualBox
> each hosted on Windows 7.  Both hypervisors running OEL VM environments
> seemed a little slow and I/O bound. Probably due to the underlying Windows
> host.
>
> My thought was to implement a Type-1 hypervisor, headless and use VNC when
> an interactive session is required.  But I'm hearing other things like
> Docker, libvirt, containers...
>
> With my mix of Linux and Windows requirements, let me know if I'm on the
> right track OR point me in a faster, better direction.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Alan Sterger
>
>
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