We run a large portion of our production infrastructure on VMWare ESX, including WO. It works extremely well but it does take some knowledge and experience to keep it running smoothly. A lot of the issues you hear about bad networking, intermittent drives, time sync, etc. are from either misconfiguration or incompatible hardware. VMWare will run on a lot of hardware but is only stable and reliable for production on a smaller subset. We had zero downtime due to VMware issues last year.
I like the idea of having a WO-ready appliance. We use CentOS for our WO boxes, but I think it might be easier to maintain a custom build on Suse using http://susestudio.com/. I *might* be talked in to building and maintaining such a thing if there's no other takers... John On Feb 24, 2011, at 6:52 PM, Pascal Robert wrote: > I didn't use the free version of ESXi 4 (my Dell tower can't run it) > but it should work fine. I do use Xen (3 VMs) and the 3 VMs (all > running CentOS) have been running just fine for months. > > VMWare Server is going to the dodo, I think the last patch was made > two years and I saw a lot of people in the CentOS who had problems > with Server. > > Le 2011-02-24 à 17:53, Timo Hoepfner <[email protected]> a écrit : > >> I've one installation on VMWare Server 2.x using Ubuntu Server 8.04 LTS both >> as host and guest OSs. While Ubuntu is fine, I cannot really recommend >> VMWare Server. It interferes a lot with other VMs (one VM with RHEL running >> an Oracle DB and an J2EE app in tomcat and one VM with Win XP) on the same >> host. E.g. the clock of all VMs need to be synced via NTP every few minutes >> to keep up. Before using Ubuntu 8 as the client, I tried Ubuntu 9. It was >> running fine but wouldn't cleanly unmount its file systems on a regular >> shutdown. After spending days trying to figure out what was going on I >> reverted to Ubuntu 8 and the problem vanished. All this couldn't be >> reproduced on Fusion... >> >> I currently don't have the resources to migrate to ESX(i) but would be >> interested in the experiences people have with it. >> >> Talking about virtualization in general, I also cannot recommend VirtualBox >> as I had several cases where the VM terminated with no apparent reason and >> wouldn't restart w/o restarting the host machine. >> >> Timo >> >> >> Am 24.02.2011 um 16:57 schrieb Pascal Robert: >> >>> Quick survey: who is deploying on VMWare (ESX or otherwise)? Maybe we could >>> make a pre-configured VM with CentOS and everything (wotaskd, Monitor, >>> Apache, etc.) needed for WO in a VMWare template? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. >>> Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) >>> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >>> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/th-dev%40onlinehome.de >>> >>> This email sent to [email protected] >> > _______________________________________________ > Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. > Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/jours%40mac.com > > This email sent to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
