[ietf78-tech] Tomorrow's meeting

[Sjoerd Oostdijck]

Jim Martin wrote:
> Sjoerd, Brian had offered a number of VMWare servers to be used 
> onsite at Maastricht. We probably need two physical boxes, just for 
> redundancy. We'll be running 3-5 freebsd VMs.
> 
I'll bring two of the servers that we always use for the RIPE meeting.
They look a bit banged up from being transported around but the hardware
is fine. The boxes are quite beefy, and already have ESX 4.0 on them.

> On Jun 5, 2010, at 12:29 PM, Sjoerd Oostdijck wrote:
> 
>> Randy Bush wrote:
>>>>>> Servers: RIPE to supply servers to host our VM's.
>>>>> compatibility check?  xen?  vbox?  kvm?  commercial?
>>>> VM's are vmware. Could be converted, but no reason to as vmware
>>>>  is free fir our purpose.
>>> and ripe's servers are vmware?
>>> 
>>> sorry to be pedantic, but compatibility check was not obvious.
>>> 
>> I haven't heard about providing servers yet, I'll check on monday. 
>> Do you need servers in maastricht, or in the RIPE offices? If in 
>> maasticht, how many real iron boxes for redundancy, and for how 
>> many VMs?
>> 
>> We also use VMware for most things at the NCC.
>> 
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