[nmglug] Production server question

[Brendan]

Andres Paglayan wrote:
> for this case I am not sure about the usefulness of the Vms,
> but please correct me,
> the environment is restricted to a single install of the app,
> and to a single physical location,
> there are some other services running on the box for wich VMs are not ideal,
> (phone on asterisk, and fax on hylafax)

Er, you're running a fax gateway, asterisk server, mysql db and a rails 
web app/web server for 100 users all on the same server?  That's some 
seriously bad mojo for a production environment.  Split that up into 3 
different machines, quick!  Give the DB a dedicate system, put the 
telephony on its own system, and finally the web server on a third. 
Conceptually you could virtualize the web server and db server, but it's 
probably not worth it until you need hardware redundancy.

-Brendan