Install on Virtual Machine?

[ericmachine]

Hi everyone,

2 weeks back I bought a new server which is installed with the open source Xen and have 2 virtual machines in there.

If possible, I would like to use the same box for zentyal.

My question, can I reuse this server for zentyal? Will there be any impact if using virtual machine?

Or do I need to buy another server (1 processor, 4GB ram, 500GB HDD SATA) dedicated for this zentyal installation?

Do I need a dedicated network card just for zentyal alone?

Below is the specs for my current server:-

- NEW Intel "Romley" platform with dual processor capable in 1U 4-bay rackmountable HPC server system
- 1 x Intel Xeon SIX-Core E5-2620 2.0Ghz processors
- 7.2GT/s Intel QPI speed, 2 QPI Links, 15Mb Intel Smart Cache,
Intel Turbo Boost 2.0 & Intel Virtualization (VT-x)
- Intel C606 chipset
- Dual QPI Links
- 32GB ECC DDR3 1333Mhz RDIMM memory
- 4 memory channels per CPU
- 1 x 60GB 2.5" SATA3 SSD (for OS/Apps Rapid Startup)
- 2 x 2TB 3.5", 6Gb/s, 7.2K rpm SAS HDDs(SET AS RAID 1)
- Support 4 x 3.5" Hot-swappable Drive Bays
- 2 x 1GbE Intel Gigabit Ethernet LAN ports
- Intel C606 SAS RAID Controller supporting RAID level 0,1 & 10 - Integrated Onboard Graphic Controller with VGA port
- 600W 80PLUS Platinium High-Efficiency PSU

Any help from this community? Thanks in advance.

[robb]

Zentyal will run just fine as a virtual machine.

To make it even more easy for you VM's in 3 formats are provided: http://trac.zentyal.org/wiki/Download/VMImages

Give it a try and I hope you want to report back what you think of them.

[ericmachine]

noted and thanks

i assume zentyal is free to use right even for production? what's makes free over the small medium versions?

only KVM vm, not xen?

[robb]

They are absolutely free for use, even in production environments. Note that you optionally CAN purchase a SUPPORT contract.

I am not that familiar with xen, but can you import a vmware VM in xen?
Alternatively you can just install Zentyal from scratch using the Zentyal installer on your Xen bare metal environment. That is perfectly possible.

There is a KVM image because Zentyal has it's own virtual machine module using KVM.

[ericmachine]

Noted and thanks