you can do it, and P2V is a good search item ..
but get a copy of the hardware .. so buy 2 baremetal servers, pref 2x NAS
(3k +) and go hyper-v / or esx free
why the hardware redudancy ? put the 2 machines each with 1 host if 1 fails .. (and you made backups frequently you can resume...
Storage is raid 5 MDADM(no tuning yet) with a ext3 volume .. on top of that the .img files(or vhd for win).
And yes I am running GPL PV drivers (all windows machines have those drivers)
I am running for 6 months now, performance compairs to barebone let me explain in your next question...
the mouse the dude "recommends" is a total bust.. (and he even defends it)
1) if you are visualy impared .. you use a big screen, and learn the accessibility keys ..
So if you can get any 42"tv what you can hook up to any computer .. with a 640x800 res . set you might have to up the res...
Do a search on internet Wiki + active directory .. some of them just pull in the users/groups of your AD if configured correctly . or use sharepoint :P
Best to look voor team / project related products .. they usually have a wiki included just disable the rest.
Here here, like the saying "your planning is not my problem" ;)
Hmmm bad praktisch allround.. (you can rename a server, if you should is a other answer)
Using a DC as a fileserver/application server ? (try to move the shares to DFS first)
Pointing to server name instead of "domain...
It depends if the driver is compiled in the kernel.
There are several ways to "identify"
easiest is connect all cards (if wired) to a switch
The other way is to install Windows OS you don't need to activate it so win7 cd might do the trick
make sure all the driver(s) for network are...
ZFS Guru.
There are a lot of choices, these boil down to 3 generic
- prebuild systems (www.smallnetbuilder.com for reviews and performance charts)
- NAS on a stick (install on USB or in combo with liveCD, lot of flavors like FreeNAS,ZFSguru or Linux Live CD)
- Full installed OS on Disk...
For 1 xen barbone with a "virtualized" workable workstation you bassicly need:
- CPU "time"
Dedicated "hardware" (as in not usable for other guest/domU systems)
- RAM (only if you passthrough hardware, so if you allocate 4gb then its "gone" and only usable for that DomU)
- GPU (ATI cards...
For 1 xen barbone with a "virtualized" workable workstation you bassicly need:
- CPU "time"
Dedicated "hardware" (as in not usable for other guest/domU systems)
- RAM (only if you passthrough hardware, so if you allocate 4gb then its "gone" and only usable for that DomU)
- GPU (ATI cards...