On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Francis Swasey Frank.Swasey@uvm.edu wrote:
So, let's say I'm crazy and I want to investigate putting ldap servers on VMware Guests --- do I care about any of the directions in section 21.1.2 about separating the logs and the db or not?
From my experience that stuff is more relevant when you are worried
about performance on a physical server. I don't know much about how vmware handles io distribution when a single VM is making requests to separate disks, but I suspect that you would get slightly better performance even in vmware when the db is in a different disk than the logs.
In general I have had pretty rotten experiences with running a LDAP server on a VM. I have noticed that the db tends to get corrupted (or have problems with replication) when the server is running on a VM. These problems tend to happen a lot less when stuffs running on a physical server.
HTH
Aravind.