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Date:      Wed, 27 May 2009 12:04:00 -0400
From:      Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>
To:        Kelly Jones <kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: VM server sharing (OT)
Message-ID:  <4ad871310905270904k5d887654vd5a3a076503c694b@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, Kelly

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Kelly Jones
<kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone setup a VM server sharing arrangement, whereby I run some
> of their vmdk files on my VM server, and they run some of my vmdk
> files on their VM server?
>
> VM servers are great, but if the whole server (or its network) goes
> down, there's no redundancy. VM server sharing would allow people to
> clone their production servers w/ network/geographic diversity.
>

Interesting idea, however there is a lot of security risk here (credit
card number for customers, private internal corporate data, etc).

Any thoughts on how such data could be kept secure?

-- 
Glen Barber



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