Yike. Yeah, any kind of database server with decent traffic is likely to struggle in a virtual environment...since it's going to eat the disk I/O. You can do all sorts of prioritization and optimization, but...much better not to make it share, if you can help it. And set up the fastest RAID you can afford. My goal is to have a secondary/ failover server that is a VM, with the understanding that the performance will suck but at least people won't be down. With the size of BGG, that may not be possible - I imagine it would just thrash and die i it wasn't powerful enough.
Rebuilding RAIDs is always nerve-wracking. Very wise to make a new full backup first. I have had a couple of case where the set just crapped on me when rebuilding after replacing one disk. Once where it proceeded to rebuild off of the wrong disks (if disks 1+2+3+4+5 were the degraded set, and 6 was the new disk replacing a broken 6, it rebuilt using 1+2+4+5+6 as if 3 were the new disk). And of course it can take forever. Anyway...as a 20-year server guy I feel your pain. Sorry to geek out, have a nasty cold and of course nowhere to let my dopiness out with BGG down. :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BGG Down" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bgg_down?hl=en.
