By the way, what is the best configuration for astaro 6 and 7? Which chipset is better, which mainboard works better without problems? What do you recommend?
VMWare is now free, and the Virtual Appliance is free to download and subject to the same licenses.
It takes away hardware compatibility issues, you can run a Linux-based host OS like CentOS free.
In "normal" installs, we use intel 915-based mainboards, 1GB RAM, 80GB drives, DLink NIC's, lowest spec CPU's we can (Cel 2.4GHz) - these seem to be fine up to about 80 users with mail filtering and IPS enabled. Very few of our customers use web filtering, but if they do we bump it up to SATA 3Gbps disks adn Pentium-based processors. CPU usage seems to be low so don't see any need for high-speed or dual-core, although they are always nice to have [:)]
Why do you prefer to use your own hardware rather than the Astaro appliances? They have sizing information available, you never have to worry about incompatabilities....
so what's the benefit to using your own hardware (unless you're at home and you want to use an older machine).
I'm curious as to why you do this as opposed to using an appliance - is it a cost-savings to use the VMWare Appliance in this manner?
I can understand why we'd want to use VMWare in certain scenarios, but normally we're selling and using the appliances. We don't have to worry about hardware compatability, and many of the sites we have are larger, so we are worried about performance over time.
I'm curious as to why you do this as opposed to using an appliance - is it a cost-savings to use the VMWare Appliance in this manner?
I can understand why we'd want to use VMWare in certain scenarios, but normally we're selling and using the appliances. We don't have to worry about hardware compatability, and many of the sites we have are larger, so we are worried about performance over time.
