Re: [OpenAFS] Deploying OpenAFS on VMs

2011-07-05 Thread Terry McCoy
On 06/15/2011 11:29 PM, Coy Hile wrote: I have a question about deployment of OpenAFS on VMWare. Assume for the sake of argument that one has a requirement to deploy OpenAFS on VMs -- to include deploying his fileservers as VMs. Has anyone actually done that sort of deployment? If so, did you

Re: [OpenAFS] Deploying OpenAFS on VMs

2011-06-27 Thread Berthold Cogel
Am 16.06.2011 05:29, schrieb Coy Hile: I have a question about deployment of OpenAFS on VMWare. Assume for the sake of argument that one has a requirement to deploy OpenAFS on VMs -- to include deploying his fileservers as VMs. Has anyone actually done that sort of deployment? If so, did

RE: [OpenAFS] Deploying OpenAFS on VMs

2011-06-20 Thread Hoskins, Matthew
Hello all, NJIT has been running Virtualized fileservers and database servers for at 4 years. We operate two cells, our administrative cell is fully virtualized. Our Student/Research cell is partially virtualized (full virtualization in progress now). OpenAFS at NJIT forms the backbone of

Re: [OpenAFS] Deploying OpenAFS on VMs

2011-06-20 Thread Coy Hile
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Hoskins, Matthew matthew.hosk...@njit.edu wrote: · Many fileservers / smaller fileservers:   This philosophy has evolved as we have moved more into virtualized fileservers.   With physical hardware you are limited by ABILITY TO PURCHASE.  Meaning, you

RE: [OpenAFS] Deploying OpenAFS on VMs

2011-06-20 Thread Hoskins, Matthew
: openafs-info@openafs.org Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] Deploying OpenAFS on VMs On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Hoskins, Matthew matthew.hosk...@njit.edu wrote: · Many fileservers / smaller fileservers:   This philosophy has evolved as we have moved more into virtualized fileservers

Re: [OpenAFS] Deploying OpenAFS on VMs

2011-06-17 Thread omalleys
Quoting Jaap Winius jwin...@umrk.nl: Quoting Coy Hile coy.h...@coyhile.com: I have a question about deployment of OpenAFS on VMWare. Assume for the sake of argument that one has a requirement to deploy OpenAFS on VMs -- to include deploying his fileservers as VMs. Has anyone actually done

Re: [OpenAFS] Deploying OpenAFS on VMs

2011-06-17 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, omall...@msu.edu wrote: Quoting Jaap Winius jwin...@umrk.nl: Quoting Coy Hile coy.h...@coyhile.com: I have a question about deployment of OpenAFS on VMWare. Assume for the sake of argument that one has a requirement to deploy OpenAFS on VMs -- to include deploying his

Re: [OpenAFS] Deploying OpenAFS on VMs

2011-06-16 Thread Harald Barth
I have a question about deployment of OpenAFS on VMWare. If I recall correctly: su.se virtualized all their AFS servers, discovered that preformance was crap under concurrent loads and unvirtualized them again. Harald. ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list

Re: [OpenAFS] Deploying OpenAFS on VMs

2011-06-16 Thread Jan Johansson
Harald Barth h...@kth.se wrote: If I recall correctly: su.se virtualized all their AFS servers, discovered that preformance was crap under concurrent loads and unvirtualized them again. We started to virtualize all our AFS servers with FreeBSD 5.x in an ESX 3.5. We used Raw Device Mappings

Re: [OpenAFS] Deploying OpenAFS on VMs

2011-06-16 Thread Harald Barth
Physical Dell R710 RAID 5: 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 6.94223 s, 155 MB/s Into AFS or on the /vicep*? For the first it is high and for the second a bit low. Harald. ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org

Re: [OpenAFS] Deploying OpenAFS on VMs

2011-06-16 Thread Jan Johansson
Harald Barth h...@kth.se wrote: Physical Dell R710 RAID 5: 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 6.94223 s, 155 MB/s Into AFS or on the /vicep*? For the first it is high and for the second a bit low. To the /vicepa* on a live server think I have seen better values when the AFS process have

Re: [OpenAFS] Deploying OpenAFS on VMs

2011-06-16 Thread Jaap Winius
Quoting Coy Hile coy.h...@coyhile.com: I have a question about deployment of OpenAFS on VMWare. Assume for the sake of argument that one has a requirement to deploy OpenAFS on VMs -- to include deploying his fileservers as VMs. Has anyone actually done that sort of deployment? Well, I have

RE: [OpenAFS] Deploying OpenAFS on VMs

2011-06-16 Thread McKee, Shawn
-info-ad...@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Jaap Winius Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 12:31 PM To: openafs-info@openafs.org Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] Deploying OpenAFS on VMs Quoting Coy Hile coy.h...@coyhile.com: I have a question about deployment of OpenAFS on VMWare. Assume for the sake of argument

Re: [OpenAFS] Deploying OpenAFS on VMs

2011-06-16 Thread Garance A Drosihn
On 6/16/11 12:18 AM, Derrick Brashear wrote: On Jun 15, 2011, at 8:48 PM, Russ Allberyr...@stanford.edu wrote: We have AFS server VMs on VMware whose vice partitions are vmdk files on an NFS network file system, and they're usable. They're slow (we're using them to store old archival

[OpenAFS] Deploying OpenAFS on VMs

2011-06-15 Thread Coy Hile
I have a question about deployment of OpenAFS on VMWare. Assume for the sake of argument that one has a requirement to deploy OpenAFS on VMs -- to include deploying his fileservers as VMs. Has anyone actually done that sort of deployment? If so, did you make the vice partitions directly mapped

Re: [OpenAFS] Deploying OpenAFS on VMs

2011-06-15 Thread Russ Allbery
Coy Hile coy.h...@coyhile.com writes: I have a question about deployment of OpenAFS on VMWare. Assume for the sake of argument that one has a requirement to deploy OpenAFS on VMs -- to include deploying his fileservers as VMs. Has anyone actually done that sort of deployment? If so, did