[Gllug] Debian: vserver vs openvz

[Richard Huxton]

Vidar Hokstad wrote:
> 
> On 29 Jul 2008, at 13:09, Richard Huxton wrote:
> 
>> Since we're on the topic of virtualisation, does anyone have any
>> experience of these?
> 
> We're hosting several major customers in OpenVz containers, and it works 
> very well. We'll be transitioning our entire environment into containers 
> over time, including relatively high traffic client sites like Square 
> Meal, as it makes the entire environment a lot more flexible (in terms 
> of minimizing the need for overcapacity, or handling failing hardware 
> without downtime for example). I'm just now actually configuring more 
> servers for a new major customer, and on those everything will be 
> running in OpenVz containers. So far so good - we've had no major 
> problems with it.

Thanks - that's useful information. It's the flexibility that appeals to 
me (well, that and the very low overheads). I'll be using it in a 
similar setup to you, just with much smaller clients so it's good to 
know the reliability is there.

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   Richard Huxton
   Archonet Ltd
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