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: John Ours <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:29:24 -0500
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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