Re: Admin Guide: Tuning 21.1.2 Disks and virtual servers
Aravind Gottipati <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.openldap.general |
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On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Francis Swasey <[email protected]> wrote: > So, let's say I'm crazy and I want to investigate putting ldap servers on > VMware Guests --- do I care about any of the directions in section 21.1.2 > about separating the logs and the db or not? >From my experience that stuff is more relevant when you are worried about performance on a physical server. I don't know much about how vmware handles io distribution when a single VM is making requests to separate disks, but I suspect that you would get slightly better performance even in vmware when the db is in a different disk than the logs. In general I have had pretty rotten experiences with running a LDAP server on a VM. I have noticed that the db tends to get corrupted (or have problems with replication) when the server is running on a VM. These problems tend to happen a lot less when stuffs running on a physical server. HTH Aravind.