riak nodes on vmware

2015-12-30 Thread Travis Kirstine
We thinking of deploying multiple riak nodes on a few servers using vmware, 2 vm with riak nodes per physical server. Is this a bad idea? ___ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_list

Re: riak nodes on vmware

2015-12-30 Thread Luke Bakken
Hi Travis, Most likely you will have reduced performance when compared to running a single Riak node on physical hardware. Benchmarking is the only way to be certain. -- Luke Bakken Engineer lbak...@basho.com On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Travis Kirstine wrote: > We thinking of deploying mul

Re: riak nodes on vmware

2015-12-30 Thread Alexander Sicular
Hi Travis, Beyond performance reasons, this architecture is a bad idea from an availability perspective. If you lose one physical machine you'll lose two segments of your Riak cluster. And that's generally "not a good thing." -Alexander @siculars http://siculars.posthaven.com Sent from my i