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Home user creating a cluster/cloud?

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September 16, 2014 7:29:53 PM

I've managed to come across two fully stacked poweredge servers and am looking for the best way I can use them. I used to run single Ubuntu server instances on old desktops and in VPSs running web servers and storing TBs of backups and would love to do away with those. I've dabbled in both openstack and vmware, and at the end I loved openstack, but I got really stuck on its networking requirements and vmware was filled with tons of licencing hoops I would have to jump through. I've checked out proxmox, but it doesn't look like it would last through very much expansion. I like to think I know what I'm doing, but I'm really hoping for just a simple solution. If there is none, I'd love to hear some opinions on my situation. Thanks!

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September 17, 2014 12:33:45 PM

What OS are you planning on for your VMs? Linux? You can use Zen or KVM for the hypervisor for no additional cost. Openstack is geared to creating and destroying VMs on large scale. Do you plan to build and destroy a lot of VMs or is this a more static situation? You can still use Chef to create the VMs from recipes without the Openstack overhead.

You can use WindowsServer as the hypervisor and as the guests but you have the license costs.
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