Topic: Zoneminder on SME 8 b7

[newburns]

I know this is not the vm forum, but I wood like to setup vm for sme. My hardware doesn't allow to install proxmox due to 64 bit virtualization, can you point me in the right direction for esxi or esx iso? I cannot navigate their page as easily

[Stefano]

if you want to use esx or proxmox you must use certified hw..

[newburns]

I am, I think. HP DL380 G3.
It's an issue with proxmox, but i'm sure it works with esx

[Mntsnow]

AFAIK
ESXi requires dual 64bit procs

Yep on page 5 of the eval guide:  https://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vsphere/VMware-vSphere-Evaluation-Guide-1.pdf
HARDWARE MINIMUM
CPU – Two processors of 2GHz
Memory – 6GB
Network – 2x 1GB network adaptor

[newburns]

But I have dual xenon 2.8 processors and 8gb ecc memory, and both nic Ports. How do you find or about the 64 bit processor, or virtualization?

[Franco]

Hi,
I have a HP DL380 G3 running Proxmox with no problems.

Best,

[newburns]

Do you have a link to the iso? I'm guessing I had wrong one because it threw an error about 64 but at start

[Mntsnow]

Newburns,

Check out that PDF that I linked to as it will help you.

Are you wanting to run VMware from within a running server of SME-8 or are you wanting the server hardware to run Vmware natively and then run a virtual instance of Zoneminder and other virtual services?

Also within the bios you need to enable virtualization (I don't recall off the top of my head the exact wording it is in the bios)

[newburns]

I want vm on hardware to run instances of zoneminder, red5, plexmedia server, test sme, and windows XP.

Also, as far as work flew, is it better to install best OS for services, almost resulting in a Linux install per service, or find one Linux distribution most compatible for all services.

[Mntsnow]

Newburns,

I currently run SME-8 natively (hosts 5 domains and websites) on my Poweredge 1950 and then did a install of Vmware Server 2 along side (concurrently) in which I have virtual instances of Zoneminder, WinXP, MS 2003SBE, Windows 7 and a virtual instance of SME8 for dev testing.  All running on my poweredge nicely!

For the Vmware I used the instructions from here http://forums.contribs.org/index.php/topic,49261.0.html and http://wiki.contribs.org/Vmware
For Zoneminder I used http://blog.waldrondigital.com/2012/09/23/zoneminder-virtual-machine-appliance-for-vmware-esxi-workstation-fusion/ and then used VMware Vcenter Standalone converter to convert it over to a compatible vmx file after running in thru Vmware Player (which can convert the OVA file to a version that the Vcenter can convert to the correct vmx file)

[newburns]

Does sme host pretty good? I was always told it's a bad idea to use sme as host, so I was always looking for native vm solutions. Was gong to go with proxmox, but it threw an error, and I never found the iso for vmware on their website so I installed centos, hoping I could find a vm package. But I never got to it because I couldn't authenticate centos against my sme users. Now i'm going to start over. Do you recommend sme host, or find a way for proxmox to work like franco

[Mntsnow]

I have never tried Proxmox and since I only have a single proc in my server I couldn't run the standalone version of Vmware so I'm doing the best I could for me as a newbie into the virtual server world.