I don't really see much benefit to running more than one afs server per physical machine during normal operations, except if you want to have 3 DB servers running right now, without having to worry about ip changes later. (i.e. run three virtual db servers so that when you DO have real hardware, you can easily move a db server to real hardware without any client changes.)
Since you can move volumes around at will, running the extra servers will just cost you performance most likely. Other than that - should work fine, although you'd probably see better performance running the fileserver directly on the native hardware. -- Nathan ------------------------------------------------------------ Nathan Neulinger EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Missouri - Rolla Phone: (573) 341-4841 Computing Services Fax: (573) 341-4216 -----Original Message----- From: Brian Huntley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 2:37 PM To: Neulinger, Nathan; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [OpenAFS] AFS server and VMWare ESX 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 -- Brian T. Huntley, Systems Administrator Office of Information Technology Clarkson University [EMAIL PROTECTED] "UNIX *is* user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are." "Neulinger, Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/26/2003 03:29 PM To"Brian Huntley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc SubjectRE: [OpenAFS] AFS server and VMWare ESX 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 ------------------------------------------------------------ Nathan Neulinger EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Missouri - Rolla Phone: (573) 341-4841 Computing Services Fax: (573) 341-4216 -----Original Message----- 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 -- Brian T. Huntley, Systems Administrator Office of Information Technology Clarkson University [EMAIL PROTECTED] "UNIX *is* user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are." _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
