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

Hardware

• 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;

Maretec Xen domains

VMMRTSRV0[4,5]

a windows server 2003 web-pages server on the DMZ. Domain name is einstein, IP is 192.168.21.10.

VMMRTSRV0[4,5]

a windows server 2003 database server on the LAN. Domain name is copernico, IP is 192.168.20.10.

VmMrtSrv06

A dedicated OpenDAP/Thredds server on the DMZ. Domain name is opendap.mohid.com, IP is 192.168.21.20 and VNC console access is 192.168.20.125:3.

Accessing via VNC

• Install <goto>TightVNC client</goto>.

External references

• Xen homepage