Hey guys
I'm moving house and my new place doesn't have any room for my lab
therefore I want to colo some of my lab for dev purposes and maybe even a website or two.
The server I want to colo is your typical eBay special, a 1U DL360 G5 with decent spec (2 x Quad Core Xeons, SAS etc) it also has an advanced iLO2 license which allows virtual media (remote ISO mount), remote console access, shutdown / startup and playback of console sessions - so should be ideal.
Amongst other kit I have a Cisco 3750, I was thinking of maybe colo the 3750 so I can configure my own VLANs (though I could do this internally on the vm hypervisor running on the 360 G5 instead...?).
Anyway, questions I was hoping some / one of you seasoned colo vets would be able to answer is:
1. Any recommendations on how much this would cost (specifically for the DL360 on 24/7 with dual PSU's but not massive load), coloing the 3750 as well is a nice to have not a must, maybe I don't need it.
2. Any recommendations on providers I could go with
3. Recommendations on hypervisor to go with, I've used most but my choices on the table are: XenServer, VMware, Proxmox VE, OpenStack (on Ubuntu 12.04), KVM (on CentOS) etc
What do you guys think?
Cheers
I'm moving house and my new place doesn't have any room for my lab
therefore I want to colo some of my lab for dev purposes and maybe even a website or two.The server I want to colo is your typical eBay special, a 1U DL360 G5 with decent spec (2 x Quad Core Xeons, SAS etc) it also has an advanced iLO2 license which allows virtual media (remote ISO mount), remote console access, shutdown / startup and playback of console sessions - so should be ideal.
Amongst other kit I have a Cisco 3750, I was thinking of maybe colo the 3750 so I can configure my own VLANs (though I could do this internally on the vm hypervisor running on the 360 G5 instead...?).
Anyway, questions I was hoping some / one of you seasoned colo vets would be able to answer is:
1. Any recommendations on how much this would cost (specifically for the DL360 on 24/7 with dual PSU's but not massive load), coloing the 3750 as well is a nice to have not a must, maybe I don't need it.
2. Any recommendations on providers I could go with
3. Recommendations on hypervisor to go with, I've used most but my choices on the table are: XenServer, VMware, Proxmox VE, OpenStack (on Ubuntu 12.04), KVM (on CentOS) etc
What do you guys think?
Cheers