Home network getting there.
After a bit of playing around I got Xen going nicely a few weeks ago. One of the tricks seems to be to make sure you have “gutsy-updates universe” setup. Since then I’ve been rebuilding my home setup.
I’ve been creating documentation on every step as I go so I keep track of weird stuff (trying to keep this to a minimum) and so I can repeat it later. So I have a little document on create a new Xen instance (10 minute job), another on a dozen things to configure it as a long term server (backups, email, etc) and a few specific ones like Setting up Spamassassin and a Wiki.
Everything now looks like:
- 2 * Workstations
- Server
- Storage and NFS server
- Backups
- Virtual machines
- Mail / spamd / DNS Server
- http / Wiki / dhcp / DNS Server
- Various temp test servers.
- Switch
- DSL Router
- Eee Laptop
Which is a bit quieter than I had in the past with 3 server machines
