[Building Sakai] Sakai on VMware?

[Bryan Bakotich]

Thanks for all the information!

I guess I should've been a little more clear. We already have our
installation split up into a couple servers.

   1. Apache in front of a 6GB Tomcat on a Physical machine
   2. Our MySQL db is on a separate machine that was virtualized about 6
   months ago
   3. And LDAP has it's own physical machine

Virtualizing MySQL gave us some performance issues for the first month or
so, but we've finally found the right mix of settings and it's not an issue
anymore.

We only have the one application server though and that is what we are
trying to virtualize. It sounds like enough people are doing this without
too many problems so I think we'll go for it. I'm hoping once we're
virtualized I can get extra VMs so we can have a couple smaller tomcats
instead of one 6GB tomcat.

-Bryan

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Martin B. Smith <smithmb at ufl.edu> wrote:

> On 02/01/2011 11:14 PM, Bryan Bakotich wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have been getting asked by our systems team to move our Sakai app
>> server to a VM. Has anybody else has done this and is the performance
>> good enough for production?
>>
>> We are currently running only one app server on real hardware with a
>> heap size of 6GB. We are using VMware vSphere 4, and the OS of the VM
>> would be CentOS 5.
>>
>> Any insight is much appreciated. The only info I found about this
>> relating to Sakai was in this thread:
>> http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/production/2009-March/000021.html
>>
>> -Bryan
>>
>
> Hi Bryan,
>
> We use VMware for everything except NFS and Database (Oracle). Our 10
> application nodes (6gb heaps, RHEL x86_64) and 4 web frontends work great
> under vSphere 4 with the latest tools.
>
> Have you looked at the production deployments JIRA tickets? You'll probably
> find a lot more detail there:
>  http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/PROD
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Martin B. Smith
> smithmb at ufl.edu - (352) 273-1374
> CNS/Open Systems Group
> University of Florida
>
>
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-- 
Bryan Bakotich
Open Source Implementation Specialist
Digital Media Center, Information & Technology Services
Pacific Lutheran University
Tacoma, WA 98447-0013
Phone: 253-536-5021
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