[Fedora-xen] Internal and external domains on one host

[Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu]

On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 16:44 -0500, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> Would I be crazy to use one physical box to run a few internal Xen domU
> (stuff for the LAN), and  use the same host to run a few domU in a DMZ
> (website, mail, etc.)?  Besides the fact that a DoS attack on the DMZ
> domU could slow the domU on the LAN side down to a crawl, is there
> anything else that I should be concerned about?
> 
> I have a small home office, and want to consolidate my three servers to
> two.  Besides saving some electricity, the box in the DMZ is old and
> slow - the one I want to consolidate to is _much_ better.  The better
> server is already running Xen and a few domU, actually.
> 
> Has anyone done this?  A little part of me says it would be fool hardy,
> but I can be convinced otherwise!

Does anyone have an opinion on this?  I'm still wondering if it's wise
to use one Xen box for domUs in a DMZ and domUs in a trusted network.

Thanks,

Ranbir

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