Hi all, are you using some kind of DR solution with RT? Our RT servers are virtualized on VMware. As a DR solution, we keep virtual machines on our second datacenter in sync with the first one. VMs on the second data center are switched off.
If we have problems on the first data center, we power on the VMs on the second and then change our DNS to point to the new VMs. The only difference on the mirrored VMs is that thay have different IPs. So, right after powering them up, we have to connect and change the configuration of those VMs to use the new IPs (at least in those cases where we cannot use DNS aliases). This is acceptable for us, because RT is not such a critical asset that we cannot afford a downtime of a few minutes. However, the problem is that - after reconfiguring the VMs - RT becomes slow as a snail (tens of seconds for each page change/refresh). I lost a couple of days building an exact copy of our production VMs and experimenting with varying IPs and reconfiguring, and I am not able to overcome the problem, nor understand where it comes from. Has anybody ever heard of such a problem? T.I.A. Cris
