Re: Informix database virtualization - kinda

Laurie Gustin wrote: > I have a question on the opposite end of the virtual server spectrum... > > We want to create one virtual server using several physical blades. > Below are a couple of links for software projects to do this. In our > research, we have found that this type of virtual server is used > primarily for number crunching and CPU intensive operations.. but we > cant find anything about running a database on this type of setup. Has > anyone run IDS on this type of virtual server? Not sure, but I suspect that some of the IDS11.5 beta customers have.... > > > http://gridengine.sunsource.net/ > > http://www.csm.ornl.gov/harness/ > > > We are currently on IDS 10 but would be moving to IDS11 with the new > hardware. > Our current hardware is on 3 separate HP boxes (HP-UX 11.i) 2 of the > servers are barely used, while one is maxing out the resources. > Our goal is to maximize the CPU and memory resources that we have, and > one thought was to have 6 blade servers that could share CPU and memory > resources as well as providing multiple pipes to the storage SAN. > > Any insight would be helpful, I dont want to go down this hardware path > if it is not going to work for us. > > > Thanks. > Laurie > > > > Laurie Gustin > IT Programmer Analyst > Department of Public Safety > lgustin@utah.gov <mailto:lgustin@utah.gov> > 801-965-4410 > > >>> "Art S. Kagel (Oninit)" <art@oninit.com> 03/27/08 8:13 AM >>> > alain deschamps wrote: > > Has anyone experience with running Informix on vmware or other > > virtualization solutions ? > > What pitfalls are there to be aware of when running your database on a > > virtualized infrastructure ? > > Are there any best practices ? > > > > We ran (still run I'm sure) IDS on Solaris partitioned machines at my > former employer. You'd never know they weren't running on a physical > machine. > > Art S. Kagel > Oninit > > > Krgds > > Alain Deschamps > > _______________________________________________ > > Informix-list mailing list > > Informix-list@iiug.org > > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list