[PLUG] New Server Virtualization

[Ronald Bynoe]

So I just got a new server, and the rest of the components to build it will
be arriving this weekend. I'm going to assemble it this weekend and start
work on the OS next weekend. I've used VirtualBox to run VMs in the past,
and recently migrated all of my servers to KVM.

This new server though will grow my home lab to 6U with a total of 16 cores
and 64 GB of RAM between two servers. I'm considering moving to OpenStack
for my mini home cloud. It'll be live, so I'd prefer not to use devstack,
but this is going to be a much bigger undertaking for me than my past
server experiences!

I've begun reading through the OpenStack documentation, but it is
definitely geared toward much larger deployments than just 2 servers, but
they're also targeting running more than my 8 VMs, I'm also not terribly
concerned with High Availability, I'll just do backups and use RAID for now.

That said, does anyone on the list have hands on experience with
small-scale cloud deployment who might be willing to offer advice as I get
started with this?

Pleasantly,
Ronald Bynoe