[nzlug] Server Consolidation

[Marvin Pascual]

Hello Nevyn,

On 11/14/07, Nevyn <nevynh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm currently running 3 computers in my room.
> 1. An IPCop box
> 2. A Ubuntu Linux system working as a file server, print server, vm
> server, application server etc.
> 3. A desktop machine (Running Windows - I like games)
>
> I was wondering if anyone knew of a decent tutorial on running IPCop
> within a virtual machine on the file server so that I can reduce my
> electricity bill and the noise in my room and anything relating to the
> security of doing such a thing. I've noticed in the list of packages
> IPCop now has vmware-tools so I'm pretty sure it can be done securely.

Why not having one server that will run a Xen system and set it up
using NAT?  The dom0 is purely running as a firewall using IPTables
(or probably IPKungFu) then your domU will be running your needed
network services?

Good luck!

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