great big gobs of RAM and piles of cores to boot

[Eric Stein]

What is Unbuntu Hardy server going to be running as?  Dom0 or DomU? 
Both?  If DomU, how are you planning to bootstrap?  What CPUs are you 
racking?

Eric Stein

Alan Johnson wrote:
> I'm spec-ing some blades for virtualization of our production systems 
> and I just want to check with the masses (that's you all) about any 
> known issues with Linux, Xen, or Ubuntu Hardy Server when it comes to 
> up to 24 cores and as much as 256GB of RAM on the host.  These are HP 
> C-class blades, BL685s and BL465s to be exact.
>
> I have no reason to think I will have any issues, but I'm just 
> paranoid about spending this much of my employer's money.   I've have 
> plenty of experience with these technologies on various lesser boxes 
> and have no issues, but without having actually installed this stuff 
> myself on machines of quite this scale... =)
>
> Sorry to waste all your time with my wussiness.  I appreciate any 
> advise and will happily accept any abuse off-list. ;-p
>
> [For you Caddy Shack fans out there, I rearranged the words in the 
> subject to match the rhythm of "great big gobs of greasy grimy golfer 
> guts".]
>
> -- 
> Alan Johnson
> alan at datdec.com <mailto:alan at datdec.com>