. Re: OpenNMS over VMWARE ESXi

Garabed Yegavian <[email protected]> Thu, 27 Oct 2011 06:37:28 -0700
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I have been running it some time on VM with no issues
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>    3. Re: OpenNMS over VMWARE ESXi (Les Mikesell)
>    4. Monitoring Disk Space (Jeremy Leonard)
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>    6. Re: Monitoring Disk Space ([email protected])
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> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:24:15 +0500
> From: Bjron Mork <[email protected]>
> Subject: [opennms-install] OpenNMS over VMWARE ESXi
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> Hi All,
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> I want to install OpenNMS over VMWare ESXi 4 Server, but according to below
> mentioned link, VMWare is not recommended.. 
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> http://www.opennms.org/wiki/Performance_tuning#Operating_system_2
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> I have prepared two virtual Servers, one for Database and one for OpenNMS
> Server.. 
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> Should I go live using VMWARE ESXi or not? 
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> Can anybody explain , why it's not recommended?
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> Regards,
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> B~Mork
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> From: Hans-Joachim Ehlers <[email protected]>
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> ?  Should I go live using VMWARE ESXi or not?
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> ?  Can anybody explain , why it?s not recommended?
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> I assume that OpenNMS because of its rrd usage needs a large amout of IOPS. So I see  OpenNMS as an OLTP application or for MS user opennms is acting like a exchange server in terms of disk usage.
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> So you have to check what the impact would be in your Environment.
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> Cheers
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> From: Les Mikesell <[email protected]>
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> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Bjron Mork <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > 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?.
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> > Should I go live using VMWARE ESXi or not?
> >
> > Can anybody explain , why it?s not recommended?
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> 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.
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>   Les Mikesell
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> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:50:41 -0400
> From: "Jeremy Leonard" <[email protected]>
> Subject: [opennms-install] Monitoring Disk Space
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> How do I add Disk space monitoring to discovered nodes? Also, how do I add services to nodes if it didn't get discovered.
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> Jeremy Leonard
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> CNE, CLE, MCSE, CCA, A+, CNS, CLS, CCDA, MCITP EA
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> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:54:40 -0400
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> Subject: [opennms-install] False Positives
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> I keep getting false positives on nodes or services being down.
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> RESOLVED: The SNMP service poll on interface 10.0.3.20 (10.0.3.20) 
> on node SW-HS-RM415-7 failed at Thursday, October 27, 2011 8:18:15 AM EDT. 
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> The SNMP service poll on interface 10.0.3.20 (10.0.3.20) 
> on node SW-HS-RM415-7 failed at Thursday, October 27, 2011 8:18:15 AM EDT. 
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> How do I trouble shoot this?
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> Jeremy Leonard
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> Systems Engineer
> CNE, CLE, MCSE, CCA, A+, CNS, CLS, CCDA, MCITP EA
> Gracon Services, Inc. 
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> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:10:17 +0000
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> Subject: Re: [opennms-install] Monitoring Disk Space
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> Hi Jeremy,
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> in "/etc/snmp/snmp.conf " just add the  "disk/"  and restart opennms. After a few mins the graph for disk will appear.
> 
> Alex
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> How do I add Disk space monitoring to discovered nodes? Also, how do I add services to nodes if it didn't get discovered.
> 
> 
> Jeremy Leonard
> [email protected]
> (517) 349-4900
> Systems Engineer
> CNE, CLE, MCSE, CCA, A+, CNS, CLS, CCDA, MCITP EA Gracon Services, Inc. 
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