I am looking for anyone's experiences on running the polling engine on VMWare. Good, bad, whatever. Trying to decide if a physical box is needed or if I can stay virtual.
I would put the database on an external SQL server already existing... so this would house the polling engine and serve up the web page.
My QA Orion v8.0.2 enviroment is entirly on VM, including the SQL DB, it runs fine. But it only has One Orion server and one DB :
How many elements do you plan to monitor?
Once all is said and done, anywhere from 3000 to 5000 elements.
John,
This is a good start for the amount of items I will have, most likely with 30 or 40 more nodes and more volumes. What are the specs of your VM that is running this?
JA
Honestly with that many nodes I wouldn't consider using VMWare. That's just me. I've run Orion with SL-100 and SL-500 under VMWare and it worked pretty well, but SL-2000 (2000 or more elements) VMWare just didn't perform well. People were always complaining about the performance of the web interface. We now run on dedicated hardware with close to 1800 elements and a separate SQL server. Even with NTA 2.0 and the Application Monitoring Add-on, the performance is excellent.
