Re: [Spacewalk-list] Migrate from physical server to VM...any gotchas?

2012-06-15 Thread Jan Hutař
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:08:46 -0500 Sean Carolan scaro...@gmail.com wrote: We are planning to move our spacewalk installation from a physical server onto a VMware guest. The primary reasons for doing this are portability and snapshots. Has anyone else moved a Spacewalk installation from one

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Migrate from physical server to VM...any gotchas?

2012-06-15 Thread Wojtak, Greg (Superfly)
I can offer some encouragement at least and say that I have been running Spacewalk in a VM since 0.6. The only thing I'd say is to make sure the VM is sized appropriately. I've had to go back and add more vCPU's and RAM a couple times (and disk) and each time I did, it made a huge improvement.

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Migrate from physical server to VM...any gotchas?

2012-06-15 Thread Sean Carolan
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Wojtak, Greg (Superfly) gregwoj...@quickenloans.com wrote: I can offer some encouragement at least and say that I have been running Spacewalk in a VM since 0.6.  The only thing I'd say is to make sure the VM is sized appropriately. Thanks, guys. All helpful

Re: [Spacewalk-list] Migrate from physical server to VM...any gotchas?

2012-06-14 Thread Steve Meier
Hello, I have done a physical to virtual migration for our old (Version 1.0) Spacewalk which was running on Oracle. I stopped Spacewalk, Oracle and any other Services that where running and used dd to copy the filesystems over into the VM. Surely not the prettiest solution but it worked out just