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failurite
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Linux cluster running one massive vmware session

I'm very new to VMWare but I’m trying to develop a product which needs many vm sessions. I don’t want to invest in lots of hardware so I want to use commodity Linux box's in a cluster type setup where a single VM session spans the boxes and uses all connected box's resources. Any suggestions or ideas on how I could make this work would be very helpful. Thank you.

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Ken_Cline
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VMware's not your answer. VMware is designed to take the resources of a single system and slice and dice those resources to enable multiple guest OS's to run on one box. What you're looking for is something to aggregate the resources from multiple physical systems and present them to a single OS instance...

I'd suggest digging into grid computing options...if your application can take advantage of them.

Ken Cline VMware vExpert 2009 VMware Communities User Moderator Blogging at: http://KensVirtualReality.wordpress.com/
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rschmidt1300
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It sounds like you may want to look at a Beowulf Cluster. You can find info here: http://www.beowulf.org/

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failurite
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Well the issue is i want to run several small vmware sessions on the large OS. This way i can realocate resources on demand without moving the instance onto an expensive large machine.

most grid solutions only allow you to run a special app made specifically for the grid.

If i can find somthing that makes linux function as a grid but look like one os, then i could run several VMWares on top of it and realocate resources as needed.

Thanks

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epping
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there is nothing out there that can do this today, check back in about 10 years, this is a long way off the technology is just not capable of doing this

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