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RE: [Xen-users] Re: Is Anybody Running Xen in Production Environment

To: "Mike Peters" <mpeters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Re: Is Anybody Running Xen in Production Environment
From: "James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 22:39:52 +1000
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> 
> Just adding to the list of happy customers. I run about 70-80
> SUSE domains on openSUSE 10.2, similarly hosting various development,
QA
> testing, demonstration and both critical and non-critical production
> servers. Only problems we've had so far have been some hardware issues
> totally non-Xen related and some problems with our own software, again
> not Xen related.
> 

Just out of interest, did running Xen make the diagnosis of these issues
any harder? Particularly the hardware side of things?

I've just set up Xen 3.1.0 on a HP DL385, running Debian Etch in Dom0, a
spam filter (Debian Etch), a secondary nameserver (Debian Etch), a
second windows domain controller (Windows 2K3R2E), a small business
server (Windows SBS2K3R2S), and a web server (Windows 2K3R2E). Currently
Dom0 isn't running any of HP's (closed source binary afaik) monitoring
stuff, and I'm not sure if there is going to be any value in trying to
make it go...

I guess my concern is that if a disk, fan, psu, or anything else fails
or something, I don't yet have the tools to know about it (server will
be in a colo facility). Are binary-only modules supported in Dom0? I
suspect that there might be some problems...

Thanks

James


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