Re: VMware for Cyrus?

[David Lang <david.lang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, Sebastian Hagedorn wrote:

> --On 9. November 2009 08:37:46 -0300 Reinaldo de Carvalho
> <reinaldoc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > You need analyse the I/O consumition.
> >
> > # iostat -d 1
>
> I trust real world experiences more than benchmarks ... either people on
> this list have successfully run Cyrus under ESX or they haven't. I don't
> want to be the first to try it.

iostat is not a benchmark, it's a tool to measure your I/O patterns (number of 
I/O's, size of transfers, etc)

while I understand your desire to have real-world experiance, you do need to 
know your usage patterns to size the system accordingly.

David Lang

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