19 minutes ago, james.wilson said:

alpat whats your thoughts om virtualbox?

 

We did briefly look at oracle VB, but the lack of support was an issue. Obviously cost wise VB wins hands down. 

VB is great for desktop virtualisation, VMWare for enterprise solutions

VMWare also does quite a lot more, and is considerably quicker

From what I remember the main issue for us with VB was controlling hardware ports through each virtualised server 

is that mainly cos of hv management vs hv performance?

sorry hv = vm

VMWare management using VSphere (desktop client) is simple.

On each Virtual server you can set max/min CPU, memory, LAN usage. So for CCTV we priorities LAN bandwidth, but not processor and memory.

Its so easy to monitor everything through one client.

Typical VMWare setup:

• ESX server host
• Virtual Centre Server
• Virtual Infrastructure (VI) client
• Web Browser
• License Server
• Database

 

Edited May 11, 20169 yr by Alpat Systems

i would agree that vSphere is better it does seem expensive just for a cctv vs.

Id also agree that it allows much better resource management

But i use vbox for all my vm's and last time i used VMware stuff was back at v2

Top image is, show the old Milestone server at the bottom as we prepared to move it onto the new virtual server.

Bottom image is it moved into new sound/dust proof cabinet

 

 

 

 

there is more than the server there tho?

and another one being prepared.

 

and approx £100k worth of accompanying switches and routers

 

 

good god dont leave em outside for long

That's delivery companies for you!

Dropped them about 100m from the entrance in the carpark. There's over 250kg of weight there too