[OpenAFS] VMware and AFS
Tom Briggs
tbriggs@cs.ship.edu
Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:03:53 -0400
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We are running AFS as both servers and clients under a combination of vmware
products.
We have 3 AFS servers running under ESXi. Our student UNIX login servers
are also running under ESXI and are running the client. Both have worked
flawlessly. I am also running a fourth AFS server under VMWare fusion, and
its been running flawlessly as well (it was just tricky to have it startup
at boot). We use VMWare workstation / fusion for a number of courses, and
each have AFS client installed. Again, students use those in a variety of
abusive ways and it has worked fine.
We *were* using 8.10 on our servers - so I wasn't using 8.04. You may want
to look to ensure that your cache settings on the clients aren't set to use
memory, that can make things pretty slow - esp. since VMWare places game
with the guest's physical memory and how its actually allocated. My
intuition is that the memory cache would reduce performance for the virtual
machine.
-tom
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Steve Devine <sd@msu.edu> wrote:
> We are running an Ubuntu server "Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS" with the OpenAFS 1.4.11
> client on a VM guest. This works great except over time the afs client
> wedges the server - (Ram gets consumed). When this happens we have to do a
> hard reboot to get it back on line.
> How many others are running AFS clients on VMware guests? Any issues or
> suggestions on troubleshooting this?
> The VMWare is version 4.0.
>
> Steve Devine
> Systems & Infrastructure
> Academic Technology Services
> Michigan State University
>
>
>
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Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
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We are running AFS as both servers and clients under a combination of vmwar=
e products.<div><br></div><div>We have 3 AFS servers running under ESXi. =
=A0Our student UNIX login servers are also running under ESXI and are runni=
ng the client. =A0Both have worked flawlessly. =A0I am also running a fourt=
h AFS server under VMWare fusion, and its been running flawlessly as well (=
it was just tricky to have it startup at boot). =A0We use VMWare workstatio=
n / fusion for a number of courses, and each have AFS client installed. =A0=
Again, students use those in a variety of abusive ways and it has worked fi=
ne.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We *were* using 8.10 on our servers - so I wasn't u=
sing 8.04. =A0You may want to look to ensure that your cache settings on th=
e clients aren't set to use memory, that can make things pretty slow - =
esp. since VMWare places game with the guest's physical memory and how =
its actually allocated. =A0My intuition is that the memory cache would redu=
ce performance for the virtual machine.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-tom</div><div><div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On T=
hu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Steve Devine <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"=
mailto:sd@msu.edu">sd@msu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D=
"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding=
-left:1ex;">
We are running an Ubuntu server "Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS" with the Open=
AFS 1.4.11 client on a VM guest. This works great except over time the afs =
client wedges the server - (Ram gets consumed). When this happens we have t=
o do a hard reboot to get it back on line.<br>
How many others are running AFS clients on VMware guests? Any issues or sug=
gestions on troubleshooting this?<br>
The VMWare is version 4.0.<br>
<br>
Steve Devine<br>
Systems & Infrastructure<br>
Academic Technology Services<br>
Michigan State University<br>
<br>
<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear=3D"all"><br>-- <br>---------<br>Tom Briggs=
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g University of Pennsylvania<br><br>
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