Where It's Going: Recap

This is a recap of where it's going in the future:

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We have several virtual servers. They are divided up on the 2 physical servers: main1, and main2.

We have these servers that provide "basic" functionality:

• vmain - The virtual main server
• This is the basic virtual server for the network, providing services like DNS.
• vweb - The virtual web server
• This server provides the basic infrastructure for web sites hosted by the network.
• vmail - The virtual mail server
• The final "link" for e-mail to work. Although vmain, does provide e-mail as well, it doesn't provide "outside access" to e-mail. It works in a non-standard way. vmail, works in a standard way. vmail provides e-mail accounts similar to what gmail does.
• The two e-mail servers can work together to provide useful network functions.
• vwinxpsrv - The virtual Windows XP server server
• This mainly provides simple TCP/IP services to the network.

We have these App servers:

• vwinxp - The virtual Windows XP server
• This is an App server that allows us to run Windows XP Apps in a world where most Apps that run on Windows XP are no longer supported. There is a lot of good software out there, and we don't want to phase all of it out yet.
• vmandrivalinux - The virtual Mandriva Linux server
• This is an App server that runs Mandriva Linux 2010.1. It lets us use the client functions of Mandriva Linux 2010.1, in a basic way.
• vmandrakelinux - The virtual Mandrake Linux server
• This App server runs Mandrake Linux Community 10.1. It lets us run programs that were designed for Mandrake Linux, which was a predecessor of Mandriva Linux.

There are several websites provided by the network. These can be accessed from the main network website.

There are several websites, and/or web services. These can all be accessed from my main network web page. That is the only one of my network pages, that is located on a server outside the network. Mostly you can browse it as if it were all on one server. But most of it, in reality, is on my virtual servers.

 The basics of e-mail are working okay:

The e-mail subsystems are all set up and working okay. We have a long ways to go before private mail works with e-mail, but we are on the way. Now we have the subsystems set up.

 Although it's not advertised well, we have these abilities:

• Allow users to create their own websites
• Allow users to have their own e-mail accounts, flexible in my non-standard e-mail way.
• Allow users to log onto App servers to play games or do work

We have 3 different Learning Management Systems (LMSs). These are part of the web services.

We will want to provide network booting in the future, so that we can run more OSs.

--- Dennis Earl Smiley ---