Xen

Xen is an open-source virtual machine server to be run on Linux. At Maretec we recently took a course on Xen and have installed a quad-core Opteron machine with 20GB RAM and a nearly 2TB RAID 5 storage volume.

Maretec Xen server machine

Architecture and hardware specifications

• Quad-core Opteron AMD with 20GB ram and 2 TB RAID5 Physical Volume composed by 4x750GB enterprise-graded hard-drives,
• Suse Enterprise Server v10.2 with Xen Hypervisor installed,
• Network address at 192.168.20.125.
• RAID 5 of 1.97TB with no hot-swap disk available.
• Bridging: eth2<->192.168.20.125; eth1<->DMZ; eth0<->LAN;

Xen domains

• VmMrtSrv06

External references

• Xen homepage