Curtis Schongalla A+, Network+, Security+, MCSA, & CCNP

Virtualized Web Server

Just for fun, I virtualized my web server.  I used CloneZilla to create a backup image of my current server. Then I uploaded that to the web server and used CloneZilla over ssh to load the image onto a virtual server. I had to rebuild the initrd file to look for the file system on a Virtual SCSI drive instead of the SATA drive it was on before, but after that it worked prefectly.

I am going to be rebuilding the web server soon so I am running it off of the ESXi host for a few weeks while I order some new hard drives to setup a RAID 1 array for better data security. Afterwards I am going to look into using rsync to setup a redundant virtualized web server as a backup for my current physical server.