On Friday 18 May 2007 21:20:48 Frost, Mark {PBG} wrote: > Does anyone out there have experience running a Nagios server under a > virtual machine (VM)? Specifcally VMWare in a Linux VM? > > We currently run Nagios 2.9 on a physical box which is pretty adequate > for the volume of hosts and service we check (300-400 hosts, 1800+ > services). > > I'm a little nervous about some of the things I've heard about VMs being > a little off time-wise, but perhaps that would not be a problem for > Nagios. > > I'm interested in any real experiences anyone might have running this > way, pro or con. >
I'm running several Nagios instances in VMware Server. VMware published a great guide about timekeeping in VMs, it may help you avoiding timesync trouble: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf Regards, Elias P. -- A really nice number: "09:F9:11:02:9D:74:E3:5B:D8:41:56:C5:63:56:88:C0"
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