How to manage a small Virtual Machine infrastructure

Over the last months, I felt the need to start a small virtual machine infrastructure to manage every small need on a laboratory at work.

The set up infrastructure is the following:

1x Apple Macbook Pro 4.1 – for development of the appliances

2x HP DL360 with 8GB RAM running Ubuntu 10.4 – to run the VMs

Note that is this NOT a production environment. This only covers a LAB needs and requirements, so stuff like redundancy and fail safe will not be included.

 

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Over the next few weeks, I’ll add some important notes.

 

Workflow

The workflow is quite strait forward:

  • set up the VM on the Macbook running Oracle Virtual Box;
  • Deploy the VM on the HP server running Linux KVM

To go from one step to the other, conversion between formats is required. We’ll cover that later.

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