[OpenAFS] Running OpenAFS in Vmware ESX host

[Neulinger, Nathan]

It only obliterates it if you have ONE vmware system.=20

We are doing this for our afs database servers and have 10 DELL 2650's
virtualizing approximately 100 linux and windows servers, with plenty of
room to spare.

-- Nathan

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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@umr.edu
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: openafs-info-admin@openafs.org=20
> [mailto:openafs-info-admin@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Derek Atkins
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 8:26 AM
> To: Matthew Cocker
> Cc: openafs-info
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] Running OpenAFS in Vmware ESX host
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> Matthew Cocker <matt@cs.auckland.ac.nz> writes:
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> > Hi
> >
> > We are presently moving a lot of our infrastructure servers into
> > Vmware ESX virtual machines. At the moment we are testing OpenAFS
> > fileservers and DB as virtual machines (sans backend). Is=20
> anyone else
> > tried this in production yet?
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> I have heard of people doing it, but frankly it doesn't buy you
> anything unless you're trying to put multiple AFS cells onto the same
> hardware.
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> The redundancy you get by having multiple AFS servers is obliterated
> by VMware -- if the physical machine crashes you lose ALL the afs
> servers on that host machine.  Not really the redundancy you're
> looking for.  So, if you want the redundancy you need separate
> physical machines anyways, at which point why run the AFS server in a
> virtual machine?
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> -derek
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>        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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