benaus

+1 debian. My webserver runs debian x64 and after 1 day of light usage its using 90mb or ram. What VM type are you using? For linux only vms have a look at openvz.

I have tried a few different things like online reporting and books but nothing beats a simple email to let me know of their troubles.

I have used Zeroshell for multiple ADSL/3g accounts and it does load balancing very nicely, but at the end of the day 2 or 3 adsl lines don't compare to 10/10mbit fiber

If there is going to be a Mail server on the ESXi host, use RAID10 for better I/O. Startup cost will be greater but the VM's will run faster under load.

Thanks for that. Also if you run this on a linux/bsd server, change the part where it says ... //check target IP or domain $pingreply = exec("ping -n $count $value"); if ( substr($pingreply, -2) == 'ms') to say //check target IP or domain $pingreply = exec("ping [b]-c[/b] $count $value"); if ( substr($pingreply, -2) == 'ms') This is now running on a monitor which rotates between a few different scripts. Thanks again.

Cross platform management should be a no brainer for this sort of thing. Its one of the reasons I left the other commercial products for opensource KVM.

there is a bit of KVM talk in the *nix forum if you havent seen that.

Good Stuff. I have finally setup a KVM host but am unable to use KSM as I want openvz support also. Unfortunately KSM is only supported in kernel 2.32+ and openvz isn't. The performance of KVM so far for me has been solid and very responsive. I wont be going back to any of the commercial hyper-visors unless there is some major problems I come across.

I am very interested in trying it out, and probably will in the next few days. I will report back after I do. Mostly interested in the memory deduplication of 2.6.32 kernal.

Done. Good luck

Use RAID 10 on the VDI servers as you will get better performance. And use Raid 5 on the ISO fileservers as they wont need to have fast write speeds.

i use rapidssl, cheap and easy

Good to hear. Your previous post baffled me. I tried to replicate the problem but couldn't work out what you did.

yes you can import a pst into an exchange account. Its the way I have done it a few times.

What do you mean? Can you give more info? Can you ssh to the box? Can you browse samba shares? Can you see samba shares (but not access them) or is there none? If its permissions it could be a few things. Can you paste the samba config? And a ls -l of the shared directory?

Quotes from here I havent tried it but am going to go on that. There was a few more sites that said the same.

When I originally set it up I used this link. Even for just a basic FS I would recommend a linux filesystem. Incase you need to do anything in the future with this simple fileserver it will give you more options then ntfs can on linux.

Do you want it integrated into Active Directory for seemless access? Also I would recommend using a file system more suited to linux like ext3, ext4, brtfs or xfs. I use XFS over lvm2 for a few samba servers at the schools I work for.

do you have any PCs running 24/7? You could have a smoothwall/pfsense router running in a virtual machine. Smoothwall do make UTM devices but I have no idea what they cost.

So how are you liking 64bit ubuntu? Did you get flash working? Did you get all your codecs installed?

Not everyone is. There are alot of temp/part time jobs with DET in the AU. If you are not already working in schools its an easy way to get your foot in the door.

Thanks for that.

I always found it better to make your own appliances.Takes a little more time to setup but will make it easier in the long run. Knowing the ins and outs of the servers you run is a definite advantage, and if you take the time and write down each step you can pile it into a sh script for later

If you already have a apache box running, you can use it as a webserver and reverse proxy. Setup a vhost for the zimbra mail server, and use the following guide for the rest Configuring Apache virtual hosts for NAT

you need to setup a reverse proxy. Squid, nginx, apache and many more will do this for you. I personally use nginx for 2 apache webservers, 1 exchange box, and a cacti box.