[clug] debian hardware reccommendations

[Rob Shugg]

The AMD64 binaries sound interesting but we will probably just go for AMD athlons for now.
we are planning on splitting up our web app on to multiple machines with failover and load balancing
and want to get it all working on vms first in a test environment.

rob


David Collett wrote:

>>That said, I don't know if VMware are going to provide AMD64 binaries, so it
>>might all be a moot point.
> 
> 
> looks like there are amd64 binaries:
> 
> New in Version 4.5.2 
> 
> Here are highlights of some key features added in VMware Workstation
> 4.5.2:
> ...
> Experimental Support for 64-bit Host Operating Systems 
> 
> This means you can install this release of VMware Workstation on a
> 64-bit host computer that uses an AMD64 Opteron, Athlon 64 or Intel
> IA-32e CPU. Virtual machines you create on these hosts have 32-bit CPUs
> and can run 32-bit guest operating systems.
> ...
> 
> 
> Dave
> 
> 

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