We are running AFS as both servers and clients under a combination of vmware products.
We have 3 AFS servers running under ESXi. Our student UNIX login servers are also running under ESXI and are running the client. Both have worked flawlessly. I am also running a fourth AFS server under VMWare fusion, and its been running flawlessly as well (it was just tricky to have it startup at boot). We use VMWare workstation / fusion for a number of courses, and each have AFS client installed. Again, students use those in a variety of abusive ways and it has worked fine. We *were* using 8.10 on our servers - so I wasn't using 8.04. You may want to look to ensure that your cache settings on the clients aren't set to use memory, that can make things pretty slow - esp. since VMWare places game with the guest's physical memory and how its actually allocated. My intuition is that the memory cache would reduce performance for the virtual machine. -tom On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Steve Devine <s...@msu.edu> wrote: > We are running an Ubuntu server "Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS" with the OpenAFS 1.4.11 > client on a VM guest. This works great except over time the afs client > wedges the server - (Ram gets consumed). When this happens we have to do a > hard reboot to get it back on line. > How many others are running AFS clients on VMware guests? Any issues or > suggestions on troubleshooting this? > The VMWare is version 4.0. > > Steve Devine > Systems & Infrastructure > Academic Technology Services > Michigan State University > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > OpenAFS-info@openafs.org > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info > -- --------- Tom Briggs, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
