Specifications
To satisfy the broadest and most diverse needs Aventurin{e} is available in two versions:
- Aventurin{e} - Standard 6105R v5.4
- Aventurin{e} - Clustering 6105R v5.4
Both versions are based on CentOS5 (2.6.18 kernel) and allow you to create, administer and run multiple virtual private servers (i.e.: "VPS") on the same hardware (i.e.: "master node").
To run Aventurin{e} you just need a good server which has plenty of RAM. CPU power sure is helpful, but RAM helps quite a bit more. You can order Aventurin{e} either as downloadable ISO image, or you can buy a server (or a complete cluster!) with Aventurin{e} already pre-installed and ready to run.
Hardware requirements:
What kind of hardware you need for Aventurin{e} of course depends on the expected usage. If you just want to run a few low traffic virtual servers, then your hardware can be older and less powerful, as if you run CPU and RAM intensive tasks on many high traffic virtual servers.
This is what we consider the minimum hardware requirements:
Intel© Pentium 4 with 2.0 GHz (or similar AMD© CPU)
1 Gig of RAM
1x 100 Gigabyte harddisk
Intermediate hardware requirements:
Intel© Core2Duo E6600 2.4GHz (or better)
2-8 Gig of RAM
2x 250 Gigabyte harddisks or better.
Recommended hardware requirements for troublefree operations under most adverse situations:
Intel© Quad Core Xeon 2.33 GHz (or better)
8-16 Gig of RAM
2-4x 500 Gigabyte harddisks or better.
For clustering your server should have two network interfaces. One of them - at least - should ideally be a Gigabit Ethernet interface.
Aventurin{e} Blade Edition:
It is also possible to install and run Aventurin{e} on blades, like IBM blade centers. Of course the typical blade comes with only 2.5" disks and typically diskspace is a limiting factor that not really allows you to run many large VPS's. However, some key features of Aventurin{e} - like easy migrations, independence of hardware and the built in backup facility - make it desireable to run Aventurin{e} even though you'll run only a single VPS on that hardware.
This is what Aventurin{e} Blade Edition has been designed for: It allows you to run a single VPS on Aventurin{e} (Standard or Cluster) and you can still enjoy the ease of hosting that Aventurin{e} provides. Aventurin{e} Blade Edition costs less than Aventurin{e} Standard, but if need be you can still upgrade the license to run more than just one VPS. Please ask for more details if you're interested.
Included OS templates:
The ISO images of Aventurin{e} comes with the following OS templates included:
- CentOS v4.8 + BlueQuartz (NuOnce build - but based on a more modern CVS checkout, includes German and Danish BlueQuartz GUI)
- CentOS v5.4 + BlueOnyx (See BlueOnyx)
OS templates available through YUM:
Additional OS templates are available on the Aventurin{e} update repository and can be installed with the command "yum install <name>". The following OS templates are currently available this way (more will be added later):
- CentOS v4 (minimal install)
- CentOS v4 (default install)
- Debian v3.1 (minimal install)
- CentOS v5.4 (minimal install)
- CentOS v5.4 (default install)
- Debian v4 (minimal install)
- Debian v5 (minimal install)
- Fedora Core v5 (minimal install)
- Fedora Core v5 (default install)
- Fedora Core v6 (default install)
- Fedora Core v7 (minimal install)
- Fedora Core v7 (default install)
- Fedora Core v8 (minimal install)
- Fedora Core v8 (default install)
- Fedora Core v10 (default install)
- Fedora Core v11 (default install)
- OpenSuse v10 (default install)
- Ubuntu v6.06 (minimal install)
- Open-Xchange 0.8.6 (Community Edition) OS template
Paid OS templates:
The following extra OS templates are available at extra costs from Solarspeed.net as commercial add on:
- Zenoss v2 (Network Monitoring Appliance Software)
- CentOS 5.4 + BlueOnyx 5106R with all Solarspeed BlueOnyx extra software pre-installed
- CentOS 4.8 + BlueQuartz 5100R with all Solarspeed BlueQuartz extra software pre-installed