AIX, Solaris, Linux Test Environment Design Question

aixlover · April 17, 2009, 4:18pm

We want to set an AIX, Solaris & Linux test environment. Here are the hardware equipments:

(1) A Sunfire v100 (or v120), 1GB memory, two 36GB HDD.
(2) An IBM pSeries 7026, 1 GB memory, 4 9GB HDD.
(3) Five external HDD with SCSI interfaces, capacity from 4 GB to 72 GB.

We want to test Solaris 10 zone, ZFS, SVM mirror and Linux Cluster or VCS Cluster.

What will be a better way to design the environment? How to arrange the limited hardware devices with proper OS configurations?

DukeNuke2 · April 17, 2009, 4:33pm

in this modern times... how about virtualization? vmware esxi on a newer x86/64 server and you can test a lot of things... i'll use virtualbox on my mac to test ZFS and some other things.

aixlover · April 17, 2009, 4:36pm

Is there a trial version for vmware?

DukeNuke2 · April 17, 2009, 4:40pm

go to vmware website and have a look... searching for information on your own is essential in the unix/linux world!

incredible · April 18, 2009, 8:06am

download virtualbox VirtualBox