Greetings John, While I can not speak for either Texas Tech University (where I am a student) or the U.S. Government (whom I work for), I can definitely see the value of a virtual appliance for WO. I have noticed vendors such as TurnKey Linux ( http://www.turnkeylinux.org). The value I see is that it is a supported application and therefore, there is an organization that can be contracted to make fixes should the need arise. Having a bare-bones WebObjects appliance supplied by such vendors and contracted out so some company can use the profits it makes to maintain such an appliance makes a good deal of sense.
But what does a student know? Daniel Beatty Computer Scientist, Detonation Sciences Branch Code 474300D 1 Administration Circle M/S 1109 China Lake, CA 93555 [email protected] (LandLine) (760)939-7097 (iPhone) (806)438-6620 On 2/25/11 11:29 AM, "John Ours" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.d>>>> e >>>> >>>> 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/daniel.beatty%40navy.mil > > 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]
