We are running 3 Kafka instances on Proxmox (container based virtualization, with typical 1-5% overhead) in production.
While I have not benchmarked Kafka on it, other systems I performance tested before on Proxmox showed no measurable performance difference. It runs OpenVZ under the hood for its containers, which is loved by all the cheap $15/mo hosters for its efficiency. On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Jay Kreps <jay.kr...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the past I had used AWS for some performance testing. I didn't see > anything too unexpected other than the usual overhead on first write and > general mediocre AWS network performance. > > -jay > > On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Casey Sybrandy < > casey.sybra...@six3systems.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Has anyone deployed their kafka brokers within a VM? Are their any > > performance issues? I'd expect that once we start hitting it hard, the > > disk writes will be an issue, however I wanted to get some additional > > information. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Casey > > >
