[geeks] Dell T105 server arrives

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net>
>Date: 2008/04/02 Wed AM 10:47:17 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Dell T105 server arrives

>On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:57:27AM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>
>> Take a look at Ubuntu Server JeOS - "Just enough OS" - it is an under
>> 200 Meg server image that is text-only, and you add the parts you
>> need. Unfortunately, it is designed to run in VMware (and some other
>> virtual environments), not real hardware. 
>
>It certainly saves on diskspace.  I can't say that it made a noticable
>dent in memory usage.  But then the real hogs are the MS Windows VMs,
>the worst being the SQL server one.
>
>I do find some of the JeOS choices questionable though.  For instance,
>why are they supplying only the IDE drivers for disk?  I would have
>thought that using the LSI driver that VMWare defaults to would have
>been higher performance.  I suppose I don't know the ins and outs of
>disk usage under KVM or whatever though (I believe that Xen uses its own
>drivers rather rather than IDE or SCSI though).

I suspect (but do not know) that the reason IDE drivers are included is that they are smaller than SCSI drivers, and there are multiple choices of SCSI controllers to emulate (everyone has IDE, so why not go with that?) Oh wait, VMware Player doesn't support IDE, nor does Fusion, IIRC...

Lionel