hardware guidance

[Robert Williams]

Good systems that are available is a question.  We prefer using Intel versus
AMD and we've custom-built our servers and about half of our workstations.
What was not custom-built were Dells, which would be my second
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workstations--as well.  Please contact us if you would like to know about us
or click on the link below.  Thank you.

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Robert Williams
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Covenant Data Systems, Inc.
http://www.covenantdata.com
rwilliams at covenantdata.com  
 

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 1:05 PM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: hardware guidence

On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:57:32PM -0400, Tom Greaser wrote:
> Im looking at getting a developement workstation to 
> work with XEN. Im looking at a dual AMD 64 box.. 
>  
> Anyone know of  any good already put together systems out there.. 
> Thanks.. 
>  
> PS.. if you think Intel is the way to go.. I will listen but, from what
> ive read 
> about HyperTransport.. thats what i should do for XEN type stuff.. 

At the Summit, the presenters (one from Red Hat, one from Intel) were
showing off Xen on an Intel chip with VT support.  With this support,
you can install unmodified clients in Xen.  I just did a quick search on
Intel's web site and came up with this describing the technology:
http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/221962.htm
http://cache-www.intel.com/cd/00/00/22/19/221961_221961.pdf

Although I do like AMD CPUs, Intel, seems to be a key contributor to the
Xen technology with about 30 developers dedicated to the project
(according to their keynote at the Summit).

I don't know what the availability of the VT technology is, but it seems
to me that if your goal is just Xen, this is worthwhile looking at.  On
the other hand, if you only have Fedora guests on your server, then an
AMD processor will work - pretty much evertyhing else needs a change to
the guest OS to boot.

You should know that 64-bit support isn't in Xen yet.  It's only the
32-bit stuff that sort of works some of the time today.

See also http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/virtualization/.  The right
list to discuss virtualization is fedore-devel-list.

-- 
Ed Wilts, RHCE
Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org
Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program

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