Re: Quick survey: who's deploying on VMWare?
Re: Quick survey: who's deploying on VMWare?
- Subject: Re: Quick survey: who's deploying on VMWare?
- From: Dan Beatty <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:43:51 -0700
- Thread-topic: Quick survey: who's deploying on VMWare?
Greetings John,
While I can not speak for either Texas Tech University (where I am a
student) or the U.S. Government (whom I work for), I can definitely see the
value of a virtual appliance for WO. I have noticed vendors such as TurnKey
Linux ( http://www.turnkeylinux.org). The value I see is that it is a
supported application and therefore, there is an organization that can be
contracted to make fixes should the need arise. Having a bare-bones
WebObjects appliance supplied by such vendors and contracted out so some
company can use the profits it makes to maintain such an appliance makes a
good deal of sense.
But what does a student know?
Daniel Beatty
Computer Scientist, Detonation Sciences Branch
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On 2/25/11 11:29 AM, "John Ours" <email@hidden> wrote:
> We run a large portion of our production infrastructure on VMWare ESX,
> including WO. It works extremely well but it does take some knowledge and
> experience to keep it running smoothly. A lot of the issues you hear about
> bad networking, intermittent drives, time sync, etc. are from either
> misconfiguration or incompatible hardware. VMWare will run on a lot of
> hardware but is only stable and reliable for production on a smaller subset.
> We had zero downtime due to VMware issues last year.
>
> I like the idea of having a WO-ready appliance. We use CentOS for our WO
> boxes, but I think it might be easier to maintain a custom build on Suse using
> http://susestudio.com/. I *might* be talked in to building and maintaining
> such a thing if there's no other takers...
>
>
> John
>
>
>
> On Feb 24, 2011, at 6:52 PM, Pascal Robert wrote:
>
>> I didn't use the free version of ESXi 4 (my Dell tower can't run it)
>> but it should work fine. I do use Xen (3 VMs) and the 3 VMs (all
>> running CentOS) have been running just fine for months.
>>
>> VMWare Server is going to the dodo, I think the last patch was made
>> two years and I saw a lot of people in the CentOS who had problems
>> with Server.
>>
>> Le 2011-02-24 à 17:53, Timo Hoepfner <email@hidden> a écrit :
>>
>>> I've one installation on VMWare Server 2.x using Ubuntu Server 8.04 LTS both
>>> as host and guest OSs. While Ubuntu is fine, I cannot really recommend
>>> VMWare Server. It interferes a lot with other VMs (one VM with RHEL running
>>> an Oracle DB and an J2EE app in tomcat and one VM with Win XP) on the same
>>> host. E.g. the clock of all VMs need to be synced via NTP every few minutes
>>> to keep up. Before using Ubuntu 8 as the client, I tried Ubuntu 9. It was
>>> running fine but wouldn't cleanly unmount its file systems on a regular
>>> shutdown. After spending days trying to figure out what was going on I
>>> reverted to Ubuntu 8 and the problem vanished. All this couldn't be
>>> reproduced on Fusion...
>>>
>>> I currently don't have the resources to migrate to ESX(i) but would be
>>> interested in the experiences people have with it.
>>>
>>> Talking about virtualization in general, I also cannot recommend VirtualBox
>>> as I had several cases where the VM terminated with no apparent reason and
>>> wouldn't restart w/o restarting the host machine.
>>>
>>> Timo
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 24.02.2011 um 16:57 schrieb Pascal Robert:
>>>
>>>> Quick survey: who is deploying on VMWare (ESX or otherwise)? Maybe we could
>>>> make a pre-configured VM with CentOS and everything (wotaskd, Monitor,
>>>> Apache, etc.) needed for WO in a VMWare template?
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