Re: Apache Tom Cat in a VM as VMWARE or Red Hat Virtualization

2009-02-19 Thread Jason Viloria
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:38 PM, János Löbb janos.l...@yale.edu wrote: On Feb 18, 2009, at 3:24 PM, Alan Chaney wrote: I agree with Jorge - I run several Tomcats under VMware for both production and development. However it is worth noting that if you use the appropriate vmware tools for

Re: [OT] Apache Tom Cat in a VM as VMWARE or Red Hat Virtualization

2009-02-19 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason, On 2/19/2009 8:01 AM, Jason Viloria wrote: I admin a fairly large deployment of tomcats on vmware server and now have started to move to xen Isn't xen basically dead? Or have rumors about its demise been greatly exaggerated? I thought

Re: [OT] Apache Tom Cat in a VM as VMWARE or Red Hat Virtualization

2009-02-19 Thread Alan Chaney
Christopher Schultz wrote: Isn't xen basically dead? Or have rumors about its demise been greatly exaggerated? I thought everyone was moving to kvm. Tell that to Citrix? They made revenues of about $620M last year almost entirely based on Xen technology. Still only a fraction of VMWare's

RE: [OT] Apache Tom Cat in a VM as VMWARE or Red Hat Virtualization

2009-02-19 Thread Martin Gainty
not a VMWare expert but I found there is a significant boost in Networking connectivity with NAT over Host only ..(please email offline as this is O/T for Tomcat..) Thanks Martin __ Disclaimer and confidentiality note Everything in this e-mail and

Apache Tom Cat in a VM as VMWARE or Red Hat Virtualization

2009-02-18 Thread acacio costa
Hi,   Does anyone use Apache Tom Cat in a VM as VMWARE or Red Hat Virtualization?   i apreciate to know if you have issues and a tips to go on.   Other things to know, Performance comparative with a real server? as the same? better? What the parameters you perceive as better than other

Re: Apache Tom Cat in a VM as VMWARE or Red Hat Virtualization

2009-02-18 Thread Hassan Schroeder
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:32 AM, acacio costa acaciofco...@yahoo.com.br wrote: Does anyone use Apache Tom Cat in a VM as VMWARE or Red Hat Virtualization? FYI, it's Tomcat. i apreciate to know if you have issues and a tips to go on. I've run Tomcat under VMware for testing purposes. No

RE: Apache Tom Cat in a VM as VMWARE or Red Hat Virtualization

2009-02-18 Thread Jorge Medina
There are no issues on running Tomcat in a VM. Tomcat is unaware of where it is running. Performance depends on the host running your VM. If you compare a VM running application A on host H compared to application A running directly on host H, you will notice that running on the real server

Re: Apache Tom Cat in a VM as VMWARE or Red Hat Virtualization

2009-02-18 Thread Alan Chaney
I agree with Jorge - I run several Tomcats under VMware for both production and development. However it is worth noting that if you use the appropriate vmware tools for your installation (vmware-guestd etc.) you get a significant performance boost on network accesses which may well be

RE: Apache Tom Cat in a VM as VMWARE or Red Hat Virtualization

2009-02-18 Thread Anthony J. Biacco
Agreed, I run 2 LBed tomcats in seperate vmware machines for our dev environ. with no noticeable problems. Depends on the app though. For instance, my mysql cluster in vmware sucks when you do just about anything in the vm machines, because it's so sensitive to latency. -Tony Sent from my

Re: Apache Tom Cat in a VM as VMWARE or Red Hat Virtualization

2009-02-18 Thread János Löbb
On Feb 18, 2009, at 3:24 PM, Alan Chaney wrote: I agree with Jorge - I run several Tomcats under VMware for both production and development. However it is worth noting that if you use the appropriate vmware tools for your installation (vmware-guestd etc.) you get a significant