I'm sure that would largely depend on the "host" or "hosts" platform you are using for the virtual servers. Ours is a Dell blade chassis with M610 blades currently attached to 7TB of 15K drives. We haven't seen any I/O issues...
Just because you can spin up 100 servers on one host doesn't mean that's a good idea! The great thing about VMware is its ability to constantly monitor all servers and manage your total host resource pool to maximize your hardware utilization. As our CPU, RAM or HDD needs increase we simply add additional blades (hosts) and additional storage. We can manually migrate virtual servers away from any particular host that we want to remove or take down for maintenance without losing a single ping to the server being migrated. Ok, maybe I saw one ping lost once doing this... Great stuff...can't say enough good about VMware and their support. Dell support has been fantastic too. Best, Brad -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of Matt Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 11:34 AM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Email Accounts > I put everything on virtual servers. There's no reinstallation, > reconfiguration, etc. required to migrate to new hardware. Just > install on the host OS on a new box and migrate the container over. I have heard that for I/O intensive applications they are not a good choice. Email is definitely I/O intensive. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
