Re: Virtual Machines, is it realy good enough ? was Re: [firebird-support] Re: Server hardware advice needed

2011-08-04 Thread Thomas Steinmaurer
> Alexandre Benson Smith wrote: >>From the Geoff post the only conclusion for me is... The guy >> used the wrong product, and standard virtualization is not >> suitable for production environment. > > I can't really agree with such a sweeping statement. It all > depends on what your "produ

Re: Virtual Machines, is it realy good enough ? was Re: [firebird-support] Re: Server hardware advice needed

2011-08-04 Thread Geoff Worboys
Alexandre Benson Smith wrote: > From the Geoff post the only conclusion for me is... The guy > used the wrong product, and standard virtualization is not > suitable for production environment. I can't really agree with such a sweeping statement. It all depends on what your "production environm

Re: Virtual Machines, is it realy good enough ? was Re: [firebird-support] Re: Server hardware advice needed

2011-08-02 Thread Alexandre Benson Smith
Hi Marius ! Em 2/8/2011 05:25, mariuz escreveu: > The io is sometimes slower when running in VM , think there is one big files > that contains your virtual machine and to access it the OS must handle all > this huge blob or parts of it (I have one machine with 160G and slows down > all the serv

Virtual Machines, is it realy good enough ? was Re: [firebird-support] Re: Server hardware advice needed

2011-08-02 Thread mariuz
--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Alexandre Benson Smith wrote: > > Hi ! > > Em 31/7/2011 19:02, Joe escreveu: > > Geoff and Milan, > > > > Thank you for your suggestions. I think virtualization, and having it > > hosted by a datacenter is a great idea. So that way, we can adjust as

Re: Virtual Machines, is it realy good enough ? was Re: [firebird-support] Re: Server hardware advice needed

2011-08-01 Thread Geoff Worboys
Alexandre Benson Smith wrote: > I use VM's (Oracle VirtualBox) on my notebook, the performance > is quite good for general work, but I can see that when running > a heavy process, such as datapump, the performance is much slow > than running the same on the bare metal. [...] OS Hosted virtual envi

Virtual Machines, is it realy good enough ? was Re: [firebird-support] Re: Server hardware advice needed

2011-08-01 Thread Alexandre Benson Smith
Hi ! Em 31/7/2011 19:02, Joe escreveu: > Geoff and Milan, > > Thank you for your suggestions. I think virtualization, and having it hosted > by a datacenter is a great idea. So that way, we can adjust as needed. > > -Joe > > --- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Joe" wrote: >> >> We are pl