Hi Kyle,
We are at Arizona State University, using VMware's Virtual Infrastructure 3.5.
We actually began with dedicated hardware, and now have VMs for fedora itself,
gsearch, mysql, and apache.
RHEL5 was our initial choice of OS - however, VI3.5 leverages VMI
paravirtualization in the linux kernel, and RHEL5.X doesn't take advantage of
it (yet). Therefore we are running mostly Ubuntu 8.04 Server, which supports
VMI out of the box. It is also an extremely lightweight distribution, which we
like.
The other thing you must be very careful of is your I/O performance. When you
start sharing your disk subsystem with multiple VMs, contention can become an
issue and finding the bottleneck may be more difficult. This is also the case
for CPU contention, and is why VMware recommends scaling out (more VMs with 1
CPU and lower memory) rather than up (throwing more CPUs / memory at a single
VM).
Thanks,
Jeremy
From: Fenton, Kyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 12:16 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Fedora-commons-users] Fedora Commons on VMWare?
Does anyone have a production installation running in one or more virtual
machines rather than using dedicated hardware? We'd like to use RHEL5 on
VMWare but haven't tested it yet. Any advice would be appreciated.
--
Kyle Fenton
IT Manager, Systems Engineering
Emory University Libraries
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