<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body >Depending on what you're doing and the type of development environment you're supporting, you may want to look into VDI also - Virtual Desktops.<br><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Andrew Burton <tuglyraisin@aol.com> <br>Date: 12/15/2013 15:21 (GMT-06:00) <br>To: luna@lunagroup.us <br>Subject: Re: [LUNA] Virtual Machines <br> <br><br>Not to belabor a point, but Bob is right. We use vCenter at work, and it makes managing umpteen VM's a breeze. It's what you're after.<br> <br><br> <br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Bob Nance <bob.nance@novationsys.com><br>To: Linux Users of North Alabama mailing list <luna@lunagroup.us><br>Sent: Sun, Dec 15, 2013 1:42 pm<br>Subject: Re: [LUNA] Virtual Machines<br><br><br>If you can get buy-in, get a license for VCenter. It's a mature product<br>with a good feature set, including the ability to migrate VMs while they<br>are still running from one host to another in a cluster.<br><br>-- <br> Bob Nance<br><br> Novation Systems<br> 256-534-4620; 227<br><br><br><br><br><br>On 12/15/13 1:35 PM, "Michael W. Hall" <hallmw@att.net> wrote:<br><br>>Thanks for the input. I will have to check that out. I would like to<br>>convince people I work with we need this. However, from past experience<br>>I would say that is slim to none. I would like to keep our development<br>>VMs the same for everyone and be able to manage them.<br>><br>>On Sun, 2013-12-15 at 18:12 +0000, Bob Nance wrote:<br>>> This is what VCenter does for you. It presents a list of configured VMs,<br>>> gives you a central place to manage them and lets you start and stop<br>>>them,<br>>> as needed. It will do this across multiple VM hosts, as well.<br>>> <br>>> With a limited number of running VMs on a single host, you can use the<br>>>SMB<br>>> version of VCenter. If you want to control 4 or more hosts' inventories<br>>> and launch more than 4 guests on a host, you need to have the<br>>> higher-priced enterprise-licensed version.<br>>> <br>>> If you want to do this for free, look at Convirt and openqrm. I have not<br>>> used these and make no claims. I just know that they do some of the<br>>> management and have a free version available. Red Hat is in the business<br>>> of virtualization, they should have a tool, too, that, with any luck,<br>>>will<br>>> be available in a Red Hat-released open source version for the many Red<br>>> Hat clones (Fedora, CentOS, etc.). Their paid tool is virt-manager<br>>>(catchy<br>>> nameŠ NOT!).<br>>> <br>><br>><br>>_______________________________________________<br>>LUNA mailing list<br>>LUNA@lunagroup.us<br>>http://lunagroup.us/mailman/listinfo/luna<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>LUNA mailing list<br>LUNA@lunagroup.us<br>http://lunagroup.us/mailman/listinfo/luna<br><br> <br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <http://lunagroup.us/pipermail/luna/attachments/20131215/74b6364b/attachment.html><br>_______________________________________________<br>LUNA mailing list<br>LUNA@lunagroup.us<br>http://lunagroup.us/mailman/listinfo/luna<br></body>