Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:59:30 -0400 From: Adam Tauno Williams awilliam@opengroupware.us Subject: Re: Advice/comments on deploying openLDAP in a VirtualBox        appliance. To: openldap-technical@openldap.org Message-ID: 1253653170.5317.24.camel@linux-m3mt Content-Type: text/plain

On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 00:23 +0530, Arun Khan wrote:

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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.

Much thanks for sharing your experience and validating the deployment openLDAP+Samba/PDC in a virtual environment.

The VirtualBox VideoRam is applicable only for graphical display and VDI == VirtualDiskImage (it is the file that contains the VM).

-- Arun Khan