Hello, we have a V9.0.1.49 CMS cluster with almost complete physical machines (except the publishing server) and want to jump directly to V11.1.
Currently our cluster consists of these hardware/software. Name kfdcrd10 kfdcrd11 kfdcrd20 kswfrd03 Role author author publish database Type physical physical VM physical CPU [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Cores 8 8 8 4 RAM 8GB 8GB 16GB 8GB OS Windows Server 2003 SP2 Windows Server 2003 SP2 Windows Server 2003 SP2 Windows Server 2003 SP2 Host n/a n/a IBM X3850 M2 n/a Host 2014 n/a n/a IBM X3650 M4 n/a My operations department force me to use only virtual servers, even the database. We tried some years ago a virtualisation, but it failed because of the slow file I/O on the VMs. I'm sure, that the V11 "best RedDot CMS ever" will be much faster if we keep our new cluster on physical hardware (slightly modernized). I want to bring this better performance to the desk of my authors, which are working worldwide. They have to learn the new RD UI - better performance could be a driver to accept this effort. Because of my experience with the failed virtualization I would like to have your experience or recommendation, if a V9 => V11 performance improvement will be eaten by the virtualization? 1) Is it wise to virtualize the DB server as well? 2) Could the both authoring servers with V11 virtualized, because they are now in .NET, what works for publishing yet in V9 satisfying? Some of my pros and cons: - pro: our database is a very old MS SQL Server 2000 - the new 2008 version is better optimized for virtualization I heard - pro: V11 uses .NET with better multi-user support - pro: file I/O for logging seems to be better configurable in V11 (not all or nothing anymore as in V9) - pro: we will get a new X3650 M4 host - pro: VMWare itself is become better - con: all (VM, IIS, DB, OS) is outsourced and I have no view into and (of course no) control on the ESX host at all - con: I'm the RD admin only our operating department is separated, but they have limited knowledge about RD - con: heard from other VM applications, that the performance changes dramatically: same job can take 5s or 4min - con: we make very heavy usage of RQL commands via jRQL<http://jrql.wordpress.com/>; one of our authors creates much more stress to the servers as normal (and we have lots of batch jobs running on author machines) - con: unsure how to make a realistic performance measurement and comparision of the old V9 and new V11.1 environment Would appreciate your assessment. Frank Leja -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/reddot-cms-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
