From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 27 16:04:01 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8DCB10658D4 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 16:04:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f213.google.com (mail-bw0-f213.google.com [209.85.218.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43DF58FC25 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 16:04:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: by bwz9 with SMTP id 9so4847696bwz.43 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 09:04:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=MIRIvuMwHjqA4VgYRfLJllgSxJ8EhruTsGskVO5OKTA=; b=RAA+c3DAnUQzxH3ia+kEKQwytj6lGTH44xiTxq/fSiUnaJyB7Ys/gZCKYNP42xJ+CY zcxAg8Axioj15UO8SiMQkBSQb4n8O2H0PMbOOB2VQoH22orenMV6xkIMz3huTZb8K+A/ Q6GXYX9Q9XRCAXWrTZw5vQxskPXCjEyO3en3s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=HEgc4LgypmaOdbsOnNGP63ynq+kUPwnfI1fJ52qJ/hD859kydkwVpmyUnW7OdKPSCe JchwxNTVtfjNLxxxuA1/An0Njyorb0/RP2Y9veBBymjMz0u6mHTP77SFWROU9L7iHU3Q lHW1nA8CSNrz29tKOV4YigRbufBIM1C0t4rmU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.120.70 with SMTP id c6mr109623bkr.144.1243440240173; Wed, 27 May 2009 09:04:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <26face530905270850i3d5585fap585c3eb8806c4274@mail.gmail.com> References: <26face530905270850i3d5585fap585c3eb8806c4274@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 12:04:00 -0400 Message-ID: <4ad871310905270904k5d887654vd5a3a076503c694b@mail.gmail.com> From: Glen Barber To: Kelly Jones Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VM server sharing (OT) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 16:04:02 -0000 Hi, Kelly On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Kelly Jones 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