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Posted by kgfullerton on Fri 31 Mar 2006 at 21:44
Well, finally got around to it and am awaiting delivery of a 2nd hand Dell Precision 530 workstation that I got off of eBay.
Comes with a 1.8Ghz Intel Xeon processor (upgradeable to dual), 512Mb RDRAM, 18Gb SCSI drive.
Plans so far - I've got a stack totalling 660Gb of IDE drives on my desk, so they'll be going in it first thing. Then upgrade to 2Gb and possibly 4Gb of RDRAM (though not too soon - have you seen the price of RDRAM???)
Debian Sarge 3.1 is the first to go on, upgrade to unstable and the latest 2.6 kernel, Xen 3.0 and LVM, slap a 2nd NIC in there and it's going to be the gateway machine for my home/office network.
Planning on seperating out all the machines I might need into seperate Xen instances - for example a 128Mb/20Gb instance to do transparent Squid proxying for the network.
Seeing as I'm going to be loading a lot of Xen instances, what's the best way of cutting down on the amount of traffic transferred when i debootstrap the volumes - will the Squid proxy server handle it, or should I setup a ftp/http instance and do a partial mirror of the Debian archive?
Any other comments are welcomed as well
Cheers!
Comes with a 1.8Ghz Intel Xeon processor (upgradeable to dual), 512Mb RDRAM, 18Gb SCSI drive.
Plans so far - I've got a stack totalling 660Gb of IDE drives on my desk, so they'll be going in it first thing. Then upgrade to 2Gb and possibly 4Gb of RDRAM (though not too soon - have you seen the price of RDRAM???)
Debian Sarge 3.1 is the first to go on, upgrade to unstable and the latest 2.6 kernel, Xen 3.0 and LVM, slap a 2nd NIC in there and it's going to be the gateway machine for my home/office network.
Planning on seperating out all the machines I might need into seperate Xen instances - for example a 128Mb/20Gb instance to do transparent Squid proxying for the network.
Seeing as I'm going to be loading a lot of Xen instances, what's the best way of cutting down on the amount of traffic transferred when i debootstrap the volumes - will the Squid proxy server handle it, or should I setup a ftp/http instance and do a partial mirror of the Debian archive?
Any other comments are welcomed as well
Cheers!
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Posted by Steve (82.41.xx.xx) on Sat 1 Apr 2006 at 06:24
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If you use xen-create-image from the xen-tools package you'll have files cached intelligently on the host system.
But otherwise a caching proxy server like Squid should do the job just fine.
Sounds like a nice machine with a decent amount of storage..
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