Clayton, Thanks for sharing your experience. I'll PM you as this effort evolves.
-- Brad On 5/7/15 2:03 PM, "Clayton Donahue" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi Brad, > >Apologies if this thread is getting a bit stale, but I did want to chime >in with our experiences, as we may have been one of the original posts on >this topic a few years back ... > >We run approximately two dozen VMs on a three-host VMWare cluster. This >includes both "production" and "staging" machines. Of these, four are >production 4D databases. Similarly to what you're proposing, we also run >an Apache VM on an Ubuntu 14.04 install that serves as a front-end >reverse-proxy for the applications. > >As far as the physical setup, the servers themselves were pretty >top-of-the-line when we originally provisioned them. Dual-processor with >a healthy dose or RAM. We back these up with two SAN storage devices, one >of which uses SAS drives (for the production VMs) and another older >device using SATA drives (for staging, non-critical machines). Overall, >we've been largely happy with this setup over the years. A few takeaways: > >- Add as much RAM as you can and spend money on your disks. We've had >issues with some of our SANs and they can be a major source of headaches. >The new VSAN tech in VMWare 6.0 is looking like it might be a promising >alternative to networked storage, though. >- Have the initial setup be done by someone who deals with VMWare on a >daily basis. I can't even begin to describe the amount of black magic and >voodoo behind some of the setup options that I've seen folks fiddling >with, but it makes an enormous difference performance-wise. >- Depending on the setup, you may see a performance drop in moving from >fast local hardware on bare iron, to a virtualized environment. But ... >- The ability to spin up new VMs, take snapshots, have high-availability >failover is really nice. > >Feel free to PM me if you'd like any more details on our experience with >this setup. > >Thanks, >- Clayton > > >Clayton Donahue >iVantage Health Analytics(r) >300 Chestnut St., Suite 101 | Needham, MA 02492 >direct: 781.247.2071 | office: 781.449.5287 >email: [email protected] | iVantageHealth.com > >________________________________________ >From: [email protected] ><[email protected]> on behalf of Perkins, Bradley D ><[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 10:16 AM >To: Active4D Developer Discussion List >Subject: Re: [Active4d-dev] Active4D running in a VM? (revisited) > >Peter, > >Thanks for sharing your experience. If you don't mind can I ask you some >questions off list? > >Best, > >Brad > >On 4/21/15 1:03 AM, "Peter Gutbrod" <[email protected]> wrote: > >>Hi Brad, >> >>I'm doing this for about 2-3 years. Runs perfectly smooth and rock solid. >> >>You can run your Windows/4D vm and your Linux/Apache vm on the same >>host. For best performance make sure the Windows/4D vm has plenty of RAM >>allocated and you use a separate physical drives for the Windows/4D vm, >>ideally a SSD. >> >>Peter >>_______________________________________________ >>Active4D-dev mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://list.aparajitaworld.com/listinfo/active4d-dev >>Archives: http://active4d-nabble.aparajitaworld.com/ >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Active4D-dev mailing list >[email protected] >http://list.aparajitaworld.com/listinfo/active4d-dev >Archives: http://active4d-nabble.aparajitaworld.com/ >_______________________________________________ >Active4D-dev mailing list >[email protected] >http://list.aparajitaworld.com/listinfo/active4d-dev >Archives: http://active4d-nabble.aparajitaworld.com/ > _______________________________________________ Active4D-dev mailing list [email protected] http://list.aparajitaworld.com/listinfo/active4d-dev Archives: http://active4d-nabble.aparajitaworld.com/
