Are centralized database (SQL) servers best left out of virtualization
and committed to their own hardware like the old days or are there
some guidelines one should consider in setting them up? I'm not talking
mega-large recordsets, but large enough to handle multiple years of CRMs
and
Neil Aggarwal wrote:
Ben:
Are centralized database (SQL) servers best left out of
virtualization
...
and intensive querying, Accounting Systems and so forth.
It really depends on the hardware you allocate to the VM
and how intensive the usage is.
Personally, if I have an
Ben:
What if it were the only real active vm?
There is some overhead in virtualization, but you would
essentially have all the machine's resources available
to your db server. That should be close enough to bare
metal performance.
Neil
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On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Raffaele Camarda
raffaele.cama...@gmail.com wrote:
I was hitting the same problem last days so i went through some test, the
configuration you suggest is quite nice and according to my result yun
anticipated me on the problem doing my next step ;).
basicly i
I think it could work well. Having a server in a vm makes it
more portable.
Many of my servers and services are running in vms on two
centos 5.4 servers: openfiler, efw firewall, trixbox 2.8,
SME Server (in server mode for email and spamassassin),
windows 2003 server, windows 2008
