Hi Ben, I started out with zenoss on the vmware appliance and I ran into alot of scalability/usability issues nevertheless it was a good testbed to know where the bottlenecks can be. I have migrated my zenoss installations to 2 seperate boxes, 1 is a VM image running ubuntu linux and the other one is based on OpenBSD. The end goal for me is to use OpenBSD as the platform for monitoring.these 2 platforms, as well as any platform with a decent package management and automatic dependencies handling. there are alot of dependencies so you can waste alot of time tracking them manually. The physical machine deployment is OpenBSD on a Dell 1850 with 2x2.4GHZ and I have 120 nodes, mostly hosts but a couple of cisco switches. my cpu utilization is 12% and load average is usually less than 1 The virtual machine is delpoyed on an 8x3.0 GHZ server, dell 1950 with 12G of RAM and the zenoss instance uses about 300MB of RAM and 2% of the CPU.
My recommendation would be to dump the rpath based virtual appliance and install another linux or xBSD system in a VM. Do it quick, zenoss has a way of becoming production real fast. Mohamed Hussein http://www.unixgarage.com ------------------------ Mohamed Hussein -------------------- m2f -------------------- Read this topic online here: http://community.zenoss.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=4894#4894 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
