Question about running Pri Masters on VMWare

[Matt Pounsett]

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On 2008-Feb-06, at 14:32, Cinense, Mark wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone here has done this and if you are  
> successful with it.  The company I work for wants to run the  
> primary masters on VMWare so to keep the cost down.

It depends on how busy your DNS servers are.  We did some experiments  
with this earlier this year, and couldn't get any more than about  
18,000 q/s out of it (as compared to 78,000 q/s on the bare metal).

Instead of just the physical NIC, host OS and BIND having to pass  
packets between them, you wind up with the physical NIC, host OS,  
vmware, virtual NIC, guest OS, and BIND passing packets... which  
seriously slows things down.


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