[Nagios-users] Running Nagios on Vmware

2010-07-08 Thread Ryan C Ash
Is anyone aware of documentation or test cases showing whether or not running Nagios on VMware is a good idea? I realize the common opinion is that it is a bad idea due to I/O but I am looking for something a bit more in depth. Thanks

Re: [Nagios-users] Running Nagios on Vmware

2010-07-08 Thread C. Bensend
Is anyone aware of documentation or test cases showing whether or not running Nagios on VMware is a good idea? I realize the common opinion is that it is a bad idea due to I/O but I am looking for something a bit more in depth. I would also be interested in seeing some more detailed

Re: [Nagios-users] Running Nagios on Vmware

2010-07-08 Thread Kent Saunders
# Is anyone aware of documentation or test cases showing whether or not running Nagios on VMware is a good idea? I realize the common opinion is that it is a bad idea due to I/O but I am looking for something a bit more in depth. We run a large part of our environment on VMware, however there

Re: [Nagios-users] Running Nagios on Vmware

2010-07-08 Thread Ryan C Ash
To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Running Nagios on Vmware Is anyone aware of documentation or test cases showing whether or not running Nagios on VMware is a good idea? I realize the common opinion is that it is a bad idea due to I/O but I am looking for something a bit more

Re: [Nagios-users] Running Nagios on Vmware

2010-07-08 Thread James Pratt
-Original Message- From: Ryan C Ash [mailto:ryan.c.ash.l...@statefarm.com] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 10:01 AM To: Nagios users Subject: [Nagios-users] Running Nagios on Vmware Is anyone aware of documentation or test cases showing whether or not running Nagios on VMware

Re: [Nagios-users] Running Nagios on Vmware

2010-07-08 Thread Max Hetrick
Kent Saunders wrote: We run a large part of our environment on VMware, however there are certain things that we deem worthy of hardware, Nagios being one of them. Since we rely on Nagios to inform us of problems across our environment, we need it to be highly reliable, with performance

Re: [Nagios-users] Running Nagios on Vmware

2010-07-08 Thread Frost, Mark {PBC}
In my experience, there are weird things that happen with timing. That is, the time on a VM should be sync'd with a time source so no time is lost. However, the VM has what I like to think of as seconds of variable length. So when we tested with a VM a few years ago, the latency and execution

Re: [Nagios-users] Running Nagios on Vmware

2010-07-08 Thread Victor Lanza
network resources of each site. If there is indeed an issue with the virtualization server, I would still get notified. -Original Message- From: Kent Saunders [mailto:k...@uvm.edu] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 10:26 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Running Nagios

Re: [Nagios-users] Running Nagios on Vmware

2010-07-08 Thread Herb J.
. Thanks BTW if anyone has scalability documentation it would help us do some server sizing. -Original Message- From: Jason Gauthier [mailto:jgauth...@lastar.com] Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 9:11 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Running Nagios on Vmware