Re: BIRD on physical / virtual server.

2020-07-10 Thread Mike Neo
Great, thanks! śr., 8 lip 2020 o 09:19 Kees Meijs napisał(a): > Hi Mike, > > Saso is correct; we bumped into that one too. > > However, as long as you're running BIRD in a VM and OVS is outside the VM > there's no issue. > > K. > > On 08-07-2020 08:58, Saso Tavcar wrote: > > Hi, > > There is a k

Re: BIRD on physical / virtual server.

2020-07-08 Thread Kees Meijs
Hi Mike, Saso is correct; we bumped into that one too. However, as long as you're running BIRD in a VM and OVS is outside the VM there's no issue. K. On 08-07-2020 08:58, Saso Tavcar wrote: > Hi, > > There is a known issue with with Open vSwitch (OVS) performance with BGP. > Even without OVS we

Re: BIRD on physical / virtual server.

2020-07-08 Thread Saso Tavcar
Hi, There is a known issue with with Open vSwitch (OVS) performance with BGP. Even without OVS we hit IRQ (too many) issue on "physical" network in our KVM environment. Official OVS quote: > We'd accept patches to improve OVS's routing table code. It's not > designed to scale to 1,800,000 route

Re: BIRD on physical / virtual server.

2020-07-07 Thread Kees Meijs
Hi Mike, Make sure you use paravirtualised network adapters and your hypervisor isn't overcommitted too much. And... good metrics. Carefully monitor iowait, load, memory and such in the VM and adjust specs as needed. Besides that you're fine. K. On 08-07-2020 08:05, Mike Neo wrote: > what is y

BIRD on physical / virtual server.

2020-07-07 Thread Mike Neo
Hi, what is your experience with installing bird on virtual server (ESXi)? Is there any limitation of this kind of deployment for example problems with performance etc.? Regards, Mike