Thursday, May 04, 2006

Rebuilding the lab server

So the skinny on the lab server seems to be either a bad CPU, motherboard or power distribution block. Dell is going to ship all three to the lab and send out a tech to do the install as well. But it won't happen until Friday. Since using Virtuozzo at work I've wanted to setup the lab server on it and segment the functions to separate servers. With Virtuozzo and it's Windows licensing this is possible. However I didn't want the server going down to be the driving factor. They have a second server here that runs Terminal Services. It's a modest server, Dell PowerEdge 600SC with a Pentium 4 2.4GHz, 40GB hard drive and 1.2GB RAM. I talked with my sales guy over a SW-Soft, Paul, and he set me up with a 30 day trial license of Virtuozzo. So right now I'm working on building out this old Terminal Server into a new, temporary, Virtuozzo server for them to use tomorrow. I have running on the above mentioned server 7 Virtual Private Servers (VPS), each with a different function (2 domain controllers, web, database, print, file and terminal server). Can you believe I'm only using 545MB to do all of this!!!! As soon as I finish the configuration I'll pull the data off the old server hard drive and load up in the corresponding VPS and they should be set to go tomorrow (will have to re-join the workstations to the domain though). Friday after the old server is repaired and up and running I'll install Virtuozzo on it and then use the live migration feature to move the running VPS from the temporary server to the new (repaired) production server! Man I can't wait to see it all play out!

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