By reading the email, I would guess that the original poster intends to run only VM Server on the main OS with a single VM running the CF web server in it. So the specs of the VM would be pretty close to that of the host server, minus over head for the host OS.
>From the sense of "lived through the nightmare of working in environment that was limping along generating tons of random errors", use a VM would not add any additional errors, as far as CF would know, it would be like any other server. Assuming that the VM has enough resources, there is little downside to working this way, with the exception of now needing to upgrade to OS's when patches are released. I work with clients who have all sorts of different setups, including a client that is running everything on VM's. In this case, the hardware running the VM is very beefy, and there are many VM's on the server, the advantage of this is that if the CM hosting ColdFusion has a spike in traffic, it can get most of the processing power of the main host machine. With the 700k page views a month, you are talking about 1000 page views an hour, unless each page view is doing a lot of work, there should be no problems with the hardware you have selected. And, I agree with the other poster, do not use the registry for your client variables, it is just a bad idea! -Matthew R. Learn -----Original Message----- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 5:22 PM To: cf-server Subject: Re: Virtual Server Performance > > If you provide similar resources to the VM in question, it should > > perform well enough. But you didn't provide any information about your > > ESX environment, so no one can answer that with certainty. > > What addition information should I provide? The Virtual Server environment here is relatively > recent within the last 6 months. I only know that my co-worker intends to install ESX on the > server listed in the previous post. I misread your post, then. I assumed that the hardware specs you listed were for the existing non-virtualized CF server. Still, though, you'd need to specify how many other VMs will run on the same machine, how resources will be allocated across VMs, and the original hardware specifications for the non-virtualized CF server. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-server/message.cfm/messageid:6781 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-server/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.10
