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| Tonedef |
 Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 2:06 am Post subject: VMWARE and Broker V6 |
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| Is it a good idea to run Broker in VMWARE ? |
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 2:18 am Post subject: |
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Depends on your requirements really! 
There have been some posts on this subject; people have hit issues, mostly around configuration IIRC.
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| mqmatt |
| Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 2:35 am Post subject: |
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Lots of people do.
It's particularly useful prior to WBIMB v6, as multiple versions could not coexist and you could only have one ConfigMgr per machine. With the coexistence capability in v6 this is less important, but lots of people still use VMWare because of the partitioning and virtualisation it provides. And snapshots are very, very useful.
On the downside if you use VMWare, be sure that you're willing to accept the risk of an extra moving part... and also expect a performance hit.
Check with your IBM rep for information on licensing; AFAIK, you can take a large processor box, vmware partition it and pay licensing costs for each partition. |
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| Tonedef |
| Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 1:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Mainly for a development env, sounds like it's worth it. |
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| smdavies99 |
| Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2007 10:16 pm Post subject: Anothr good use for VM & Broker |
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Is the ability to have the different CSD's in separate VM Images.
Here ou can easily test the effect of a new CSD on your environment. We do this all the time. We have several VM's at different patch levels on the same machine ready to go for testing.
So when CSD05 came out, I just copied the CSD03 VM files, configured it into VMWare, fired it up, loaded the CSD and was then able to run our full set of regression tests. Whe nthat was done, it was all shut down, archived off and continued development (not in a VM) on the same physical system.
Also, we save each release & bugfix in VM's so that we can replicate functionality problems on exactly the same rev of software that Test, UAT or Production is using.
Just don't try to run performance tests....
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| PeterPotkay |
| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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We run our Config Managers on VMWare. 99% of the month a config manager server is doing zero work so its a good fit.
Running a broker on vmware? Other than a really low volume test Broker with no expectations of performance I wouldn't try it.
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| gs |
| Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 12:45 am Post subject: |
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We successfully run six brokers+qm's in three different environments under six separate vmware instances on esx servers.
2 of these broker/qm's are running in a heavy production environment....with good performance. |
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