On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Harald Barth wrote:
I am in charge of several afs servers in our college. Right now
there are 5 afs servers running on 5 SPARC based servers. We are
ditching Solaris since it sucks so bad and are going to move to
Linux VM's running inside of VMware.
Before you do the move into a VM, check that your VM is up to the
number of IO/sec that an AFS server can make. I know that su.se
moved all there AFS servers into a VM solution and then out again
because of performace issues under load from many concurrent users.
I don't administer the athena cell, but I do know that its servers are VMs
(presumably amply resourced). I believe they are backed by a SAN, and not
virtualized disk, though. This was done at the same time as moving the
servers to an datacenter that is not on campus proper; qualitatively it
seems that we have experienced a slight increase in AFS "blips", but it is
very hard to quantify or track down. It may just be a result of
congestion on the link between main campus and this datacenter.
Just adding a data point that it can be done, if the conditions are right.
-Ben Kaduk
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