Re: Informix on Linux on VMWare

>From (bad) experience; get as much memory as possible dedicated to the VM and use it for read-ahead buffering. The low I/O bandwidth will really hurt you if there's any decent amount of buffer churn / updates. Try to persuade your VM admin to get you a virtual disk on an underused storage path and use this for logs On 5 February 2013 14:40, Keith Simmons <smiley73@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > It looks like I am going to have to migrate an IDS instance from Solaris > to Linux. > Current machine is a 16Gb dual chip SPARC T5120 with twin path, fibre > attached disk (Raid 1) running IDS 11.5 on Solaris 5.10. > Target machine is likely to be similar memory on a generic Intel platform > with what-ever disk the hosting company provides :-( This will run VMWare v > 4 or 5 and have Linux running in a VM and IDS latest. > Machine is only used as a transient area (currently) acting as the target > for ER and a source for CDC onward to $Q1$erver. > Any thoughts to help me along the way would be appreciated such as the > 'best' Linux distro to use, number/speed of processors required. > Data migration will not be an issue as I will build from scratch using > extracts/loads from the ER Source to re-instantiate ER. > > Many Thanks > > Keith > > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list > > -- Nick Lello | Web Architect o +44 (0) 843.330.9374 | o 503.284.7581 ext. 418 | m +44 (0) 750.890.3456 | Skype: nicholas.lello Email: nick.lello at rentrak.com RENTRAK | www.rentrak.com | NASDAQ: RENT