travis
December 22nd, 2010, 12:08 PM
That works even better than what I thought. We recently migrated our servers to a single box running virtualbox to provide the few network services we need to provide for our small office (they had been running on old slow desktop boxes.)
According to the documentation I was expecting a slowdown once we started running on the virtual machine. I was happily surprised to find that performance has not been effected at all, and if anything is better than it was. Of course the hardware it's running on now probably helps.
Anyway, the machine specs if anyone is interested.
MB: ASUS KCMA-D8
CPU: 2x Opteron 4170HE @ 2.1GHz
MEM: 8x Kingston Value Ram 2GB
PSU: ZALMAN 750W
HD: 4x 1TB WD Green (Linux software raid 5)
HD: 640GB WD Blue Edition System Drive
Tha base OS is Fedora14. The zmanda server is running on Fedora12 with a 500GB Virtualbox drive that exists on the software raid.
The only bad thing is that the motherboard is so new that they don't have all the bugs worked out, which prevented us from using the built-in raid controller to do a hardware raid5. Mixed blessing I guess as we can now put the 4 raided disks in another system, remount them and be running agen.
We're seeing a max of around 150GB per night across our network so it's not huge yet (give it a year or two at most I think.)
Thanks!
Travis Hershberger
Precision Herbs PHMA
According to the documentation I was expecting a slowdown once we started running on the virtual machine. I was happily surprised to find that performance has not been effected at all, and if anything is better than it was. Of course the hardware it's running on now probably helps.
Anyway, the machine specs if anyone is interested.
MB: ASUS KCMA-D8
CPU: 2x Opteron 4170HE @ 2.1GHz
MEM: 8x Kingston Value Ram 2GB
PSU: ZALMAN 750W
HD: 4x 1TB WD Green (Linux software raid 5)
HD: 640GB WD Blue Edition System Drive
Tha base OS is Fedora14. The zmanda server is running on Fedora12 with a 500GB Virtualbox drive that exists on the software raid.
The only bad thing is that the motherboard is so new that they don't have all the bugs worked out, which prevented us from using the built-in raid controller to do a hardware raid5. Mixed blessing I guess as we can now put the 4 raided disks in another system, remount them and be running agen.
We're seeing a max of around 150GB per night across our network so it's not huge yet (give it a year or two at most I think.)
Thanks!
Travis Hershberger
Precision Herbs PHMA