Re: OpenNMS over VMWARE ESXi

Les Mikesell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.opennms.install
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On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Bjron Mork <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I want to install OpenNMS over VMWare ESXi 4 Server, but according to below
> mentioned link, VMWare is not recommended….

> I have prepared two virtual Servers, one for Database and one for OpenNMS
> Server….
>
> Should I go live using VMWARE ESXi or not?
>
> Can anybody explain , why it’s not recommended?
>

There is some overhead just from being virtualized, plus you may have
resource competition from other VMs on the same physical hardware.  In
particular it isn't going to do you any good to split the DB and
OpenNMS services if they end up sharing the same physical disk drive.
Disk head competition isn't something you can virtualize away.    How
much it matters will depend partly on the the VM guest's drivers and
partly on the scale of your network that you are monitoring.    I'd
say try it and see, but be prepared for performance issues.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
   [email protected]

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