Am 13.08.2011 19:57, schrieb Paul J Stevens:

> Also, I'm not at all familiar with IO performance on VMWare, but on Xen IO 
> really lags
> behind bare-iron databases. And thats no joke. On Xen hosts running mysql-5.5 
> I need
> to keep thread-concurrency at 1 (read: one) to keep throughput at acceptable 
> levels
> with IMAP concurrencies around 50-100 connections, POP3 around 10-20, with an 
> added
> 5 LMTP connections for insertions

we have our whole business running on VMware ESXi
there is no difference between VMware-Guest and bare-iron

one of our dbmail-machines is running currently even on VMware-Workstation
on a CentOS 5.5 Host, working wonderful, i had only a real perfomrance problem
with a CentOS geust on this machine while Fedora is running smootly, maybe
there is some problem depending on the host-guest-combination which even
VMware-Support can not explain, running the same image on a Fedora-Host no
problems

conclusion: normally there is no problem with VMware, but for business
i would strongly recommend ESXi instead of workstation on certified
hardware (HP ProLiant in our environment), running the whole company
on this since 2008 without any issue and i am speeking about webservers,
dbmail, fileservers with samba and netatalk, barracuda spamfirewall as
virtual appliance... most of the guests are runnign smoother than on
bare metal especially boot-times



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