Thank you John, At present I does not know all the details of the resources attached to our virtual environment. I am just been told "it is big and powerful". Most of our production and development environment for BMC and lots of other applications are hosted by several virtual farms.
BMC Support have asked me to move the DB to a physical environment. Our internal DBA do agree. According to the team running our virtual environments we will hardly see any difference. Time will tell. Our current BMC production environment are all virtual without any performance issues. So I got my doubts. I am now tuning the sandbox or out-of-the-box install of Pre-Configured Stack 764 for more performance. ~ Terje ________________________________________ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Baker [[email protected]] Sent: 11 April 2011 08:55 To: [email protected] Subject: Slow - Preconfig Stack 764 - Sandbox Hello, It is irrelevant whether the DB is virtual or physical. Modern virtual environments are as good as a physical host and in many organisations, applications will be deployed to virtual hosts whether you like it or not. If a global investment bank can run trading systems on virtual hardware, ITSM can run on it too. The important discussion to have is what resource is attached to your virtual environment. ie if it has a couple dedicated cores (I carefully do not use the term CPU), lots of memory and a physical disc partition mounted to the virtual host, look elsewhere for the problem. Virtual environments offer so much more than physical, such as restoration of a host within a minute of a physical host failing, snapshots of the OS on every reboot and the ability to add additional cores/memory in 10 minutes. It's easy to see why it's hard to justify the requirement for a physical host and while the features make them an obvious choice, organisations can scale vertically to reduce costs (such as Oracle Weblogic "per physical core" licensing). John -- Single Sign On for AR System http://www.javasystemsolutions.com/jss/ssoplugin _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug11 www.wwrug.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
