[OpenAFS] AFS server and VMWare ESX
Brian Huntley
bhuntley@clarkson.edu
Wed, 26 Mar 2003 15:37:12 -0500
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Thanks for your comments, Nathan!
We have several other projects that are on the way and each will require
its own hardware. Our hope was to keep our physical server count (and
associated costs) down by getting fewer, larger systems and running VM's
on them. Thus, 3 large systems will actually support 3 or 4 3-tiered
(web, application, database) applications, plus at least 3 AFS servers.
Thanks again!
-Brian
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Brian T. Huntley, Systems Administrator
Office of Information Technology
Clarkson University
bhuntley@clarkson.edu
"UNIX *is* user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends are."
"Neulinger, Nathan" <nneul@umr.edu>
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RE: [OpenAFS] AFS server and VMWare ESX
Any particular reason for doing that? OpenAFS server should run just
fine in that environment, but it seems like you'll just be creating a
lot more headache for yourself than anything.
What do you propose to gain by running the servers on virtual machines
instead of real hardware?
-- Nathan
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Nathan Neulinger EMail: nneul@umr.edu
University of Missouri - Rolla Phone: (573) 341-4841
Computing Services Fax: (573) 341-4216
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From: Brian Huntley [mailto:bhuntley@clarkson.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 2:03 PM
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Subject: [OpenAFS] AFS server and VMWare ESX
Good day everyone...
We are preparing a project plan to migrate our current Transarc AFS cell
living on Sun and IBM UNIX systems to a Linux-based OpenAFS environment.
We are contemplating creating the AFS servers (3-6 of them) as vm's on 2
or 3 physical platforms using VMWare's ESX server. Has anyone ever
tried to run an AFS server on a VM? We are wondering specifically how
well AFS will cope with the virtual disk space it will have available,
vs. being able to access the hardware directly, as it would normally
expect. Any thoughts or experiences would be greatly appreciated!
TIA!
Best regards,
Brian
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Brian T. Huntley, Systems Administrator
Office of Information Technology
Clarkson University
bhuntley@clarkson.edu
"UNIX *is* user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends
are."
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks for your comments, Nathan!</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">We have several other projects that
are on the way and each will require its own hardware. Our hope was
to keep our physical server count (and associated costs) down by getting
fewer, larger systems and running VM's on them. Thus, 3 large systems
will actually support 3 or 4 3-tiered (web, application, database) applications,
plus at least 3 AFS servers.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thanks again!</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">-Brian</font>
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Brian T. Huntley, Systems Administrator<br>
Office of Information Technology<br>
Clarkson University<br>
bhuntley@clarkson.edu <br>
"UNIX *is* user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends
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<br><font size=2><tt>Any particular reason for doing that? OpenAFS server
should run just<br>
fine in that environment, but it seems like you'll just be creating a<br>
lot more headache for yourself than anything.<br>
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What do you propose to gain by running the servers on virtual machines<br>
instead of real hardware?<br>
<br>
-- Nathan<br>
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Nathan Neulinger
EMail: nneul@umr.edu<br>
University of Missouri - Rolla Phone: (573)
341-4841<br>
Computing Services
Fax: (573) 341-4216<br>
<br>
-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Brian Huntley [mailto:bhuntley@clarkson.edu] <br>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 2:03 PM<br>
To: openafs-info@openafs.org<br>
Subject: [OpenAFS] AFS server and VMWare ESX<br>
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Good day everyone... <br>
<br>
We are preparing a project plan to migrate our current Transarc AFS cell<br>
living on Sun and IBM UNIX systems to a Linux-based OpenAFS environment.<br>
<br>
<br>
We are contemplating creating the AFS servers (3-6 of them) as vm's on
2<br>
or 3 physical platforms using VMWare's ESX server. Has anyone
ever<br>
tried to run an AFS server on a VM? We are wondering specifically
how<br>
well AFS will cope with the virtual disk space it will have available,<br>
vs. being able to access the hardware directly, as it would normally<br>
expect. Any thoughts or experiences would be greatly appreciated!
<br>
TIA! <br>
<br>
Best regards, <br>
Brian <br>
--<br>
Brian T. Huntley, Systems Administrator<br>
Office of Information Technology<br>
Clarkson University<br>
bhuntley@clarkson.edu<br>
"UNIX *is* user friendly. It's just selective about who its friends<br>
are."<br>
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