On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 00:23 +0530, Arun Khan wrote:
I have completed the prototyping of openldap, samba/pdc, on a VirtualBox appliance. The setup works fine with 4-5 different desktop clients connecting to the services. Appliance details: VirtualBox 3.0.6 - 512MB RAM, 8MB Video RAM, 9GB VDI with 1GB Swap and CentOS 5.3 64bit). I am considering deploying this appliance into production with 1GB RAM. The no. of clients connecting to the server will be approx. 150. Has anyone deployed openLDAP + Samba/PDC in a VirtualBox appliance?
I don't know anything about Virtual Box but I operate an OpenLDAP + Samba/PDC for 300+ used on an ESX VM with roughly the allocated resources you specify [although I have no idea about "Video RAM" or "VDI"]. I imagine the performance of the underlying host may matter more than your specific allocations so long as process fit into the allocated memory.