Thanks for your comments, Nathan!
We have several other projects that are on the way and each will require its own hardware. Our hope was to keep our physical server count (and associated costs) down by getting fewer, larger systems and running VM's on them. Thus, 3 large systems will actually support 3 or 4 3-tiered (web, application, database) applications, plus at least 3 AFS servers.
Thanks again!
-Brian
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Any particular reason for doing that? OpenAFS server should run just
fine in that environment, but it seems like you'll just be creating a
lot more headache for yourself than anything.
What do you propose to gain by running the servers on virtual machines
instead of real hardware?
-- Nathan
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Computing Services Fax: (573) 341-4216
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From: Brian Huntley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 2:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [OpenAFS] AFS server and VMWare ESX
Good day everyone...
We are preparing a project plan to migrate our current Transarc AFS cell
living on Sun and IBM UNIX systems to a Linux-based OpenAFS environment.
We are contemplating creating the AFS servers (3-6 of them) as vm's on 2
or 3 physical platforms using VMWare's ESX server. Has anyone ever
tried to run an AFS server on a VM? We are wondering specifically how
well AFS will cope with the virtual disk space it will have available,
vs. being able to access the hardware directly, as it would normally
expect. Any thoughts or experiences would be greatly appreciated!
TIA!
Best regards,
Brian
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Clarkson University
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