Re: [Koha] Some questions about virtualization.

2017-09-18 Thread Scott Owen
"The biggest complaint I hear from VMWare people is that it is hard to manage the computer from a machine that you do not have everything set up on. And, the VMWare licenses usually end up costing a fair bit more than you anticipated." ---the flip side.ESXi is still free. I have run and entir

Re: [Koha] Some questions about virtualization.

2017-09-18 Thread Tim Young
I have done a fair bit with different ones of these. 1) Yes 2) I will spend most of my time discussing this below.  Skipping this answer for the moment. 3) Koha works fine on virtualized servers, so long as the host machine is powerful enough to run it.  For the most part, you never realize

Re: [Koha] Some questions about virtualization.

2017-09-18 Thread Michael Kuhn
Hi Przemek 1. Does anyone use KOHA on virtualized servers? I have installed about ten productive Koha instances so far. All of them are on virtualized hosts. 2. What solution did you choose KVM, LXC / LDX, VMVare, ProxmoxVE or Docker containers? I never choose the solution myself, but th

Re: [Koha] Some questions about virtualization.

2017-09-18 Thread lists
Hi Przemek, 1. Does anyone use KOHA on virtualized servers? We do, yes. 2. What solution did you choose KVM, LXC / LDX, VMVare, ProxmoxVE or Proxmox with ceph storage. 4. Problems, challenges, thoughts? There are no differences with bare-metal, as far as we know. Only the many benefits th

Re: [Koha] Some questions about virtualization.

2017-09-18 Thread Fridolin SOMERS
Hi, We at Biblibre use LXD with Ubuntu Xenial as host and guest. Super powerfull with a huge scalability, we run 50 Koha on one server. In each container, unix user is always the same which makes scripting very easy. We use images to backup and create test/dev containers. PS : to show lxd env

[Koha] Some questions about virtualization.

2017-09-18 Thread Przemek Kosiński
Hi I have some questions about virtualization. 1. Does anyone use KOHA on virtualized servers? 2. What solution did you choose KVM, LXC / LDX, VMVare, ProxmoxVE or Docker containers? 3. Does it work on production servers or only on test servers? 4. Problems, challenges, thoughts? Tips, hints,