Hello Pandu, On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 21:17, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: > Okay, I just completed installing my 11th Gentoo server. Now I have a > running total of 6 servers on VMware Cloud, and 5 servers on > XenServer. (Still more to come, no worries; consider these as pilot > project). > > Fact is, I did all (or at least the early ones) that by pure (and > painful) trial-and-error. Especially so since many useful tidbits of > info on the 'net is sadly out-of-date. > > Considering that virtualized data center is the 'in' thing today, > shouldn't there be a Handbook for that? Or would a wiki entry suffice? > And if the latter, is Gentoo-wiki a good quasi-authoritative site? > Gentoo-wiki is a good start, if you write it in an easy to read and use fashion, I am sure the platform won't matter. A wiki is better for editing though. If it is more convenient for you, use the wiki on your site, just make sure it is picked up by Google et. al.
> I want to volunteer to write the relevant howto, with one caveat: I > have experience only with VMware Cloud and Citrix XenServer. For other > server-virtualization hypervisors, I have zero experience. > That is more than enough! Make a draft, other people can fill in details as well. I might have some notes on VirtualBox, but I'll need to dig them. > Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer Nice job title :-) Cheers, Kalin.
