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RE: [Xen-users] my first XEN Installation I need some advice

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Subject: RE: [Xen-users] my first XEN Installation I need some advice
From: Nathan Eisenberg <nathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 09:46:03 -0700
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I've had huge issues with Hyper-V's performance in production.  The blockIO 
layer is significantly worse than vanilla HVM in Xen.

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Nathan Eisenberg
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Fajar A. Nugraha
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 10:26 PM
To: Xen User-List
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] my first XEN Installation I need some advice

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Niels Jende <mylists1@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am just about to set up my first XEN-Server based on Ubuntu 9.04.

If you can live with the "hacks" required (see other responses) then
you should be fine.
If you want easy installation, use RHEL/Centos, and optionally Xen
packages from http://www.gitco.de/repo/
IMHO this is the easiest way to get the latest version of Xen running.

Other users have reported that Debian dom0 also runs quite well.

> I want / need to have:
>
> 1 PDC Server with Active Directory, DNS, DHCP based on Windows 2008 Server
>
> 1 Exchange Server 2007
>
> 1 Application Server Windows Server 2008

If all your domUs are Windows, it'd probably be better if you use
Windows 2008's Hyper-V instead.

> First question is: Is it possible to have WinServer2008 running on XEN?

Yes

> Second question is: Do I have to have special Images to install WinServer2008 
> and Exchange2007?

No.
To get maximum performance, you should use block device (partition,
LVM) as domU backend instead of using file-backed storage (the default
option). And don't forget to install GPLPV.

-- 
Fajar

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