Thanks for the all the insight... This will be extremely helpful.... Has anyone used RedDot CMS and LIveServer in a VM Unix environment?
On Mar 24, 12:14 pm, "Henry Lu a.k.a. Javahand" <[email protected]> wrote: > I've had experience running both RedDot CMS and RedDot LiveServer on Virtual > W2k3 machines. They were set up on Windows-based host machine with all the > power you need (I forgot the details.) > > On the virtual LiveServer, I have to say I have been pretty satisfied with > the performance. Or, to put it more honestly, I just did not notice anything > different than with a real box. > > On the CMS-side, I've received a lot of performance complaints when it comes > to SmartEdit data entry and list-based batch publishing; since the client > did not have the hardware to re-configure the server farm, the users had to > get used to it. Like a lot of other things with RedDot. > > So I cannot say with evidence that things on the CMS side would have been > better if I moved the server to a real box. > > Henry Lu > > > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:22 PM, RayE <[email protected]> wrote: > > > We had a poor experience running RedDot on a Windows-based VM. > > Performance for SmartEdit users was unacceptable once we had 3 or more > > concurrent users. > > > Experienced the poor performance regardless of how many other VM were > > running on the host server - Originally we had 3, and had just RedDot > > running on a VM before moving it to a dedicated server. > > > The VM Host had 16G of ram, 4 dual core processors - didn't seem to > > make a difference how much processor and ram that our admins made > > available to the VM, we were unable to achieve a satisfactory level of > > performance. > > > We now run RedDot CMS on a dedicated Windows 2003 platform, Quad 3GHz > > Xeon, 2G ram > > We do experience slowdowns when publishing jobs run, but these are > > brief - and we typically schedule jobs to run outside of work hours to > > minimize impact on editors. > > > On Mar 23, 1:49 pm, Delmore <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hey all, > > > > We are looking to upgrade our environment from an old server that is > > > currently Unix based. I was wondering if switching over to a VM > > > environment is a good idea or not. I am also given the choice between > > > a Windows base or Unix base VM environment. > > > > Any anyone that has experience this kind of move, please let me know > > > how it went? > > > > If you had any issues or concerns? > > > > What did you do to prepare for the change? > > > > Much appreciated for any advise! > > > > Thanks! > > > > Jason- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/RedDot-CMS-Users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
