Is anybody running EMs on virtualised Linux ?

Discussion created by dave.richards on Dec 15, 2011
Latest reply on Jan 5, 2012 by dave.richards

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Hi, we are planning to upgrade to CA Wily 9.0.* soon, and are looking at moving to LINUX from AIX as well.

I have seen in the Wily docs and they state that virtualisation is supported using VMWare ESX Server.

Does anybody in the community or from CA have any feedback on implementing and running this solution, particularly in a large clustered Production set up.

We do not use CEM so this is Wily only.

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Michal.Chrostowski Dec 16, 2011 6:55 AM
Hi David,

We have been using Wily installed on Suse Linux Enterprise at VMware farm for more than 4 years.
We have got 4 production collectors and 2 MOMs (hot failover) version 9.0.6.
On each collector we have got 40k metrics and it works stable.

Good luck with migration !
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- dave.richards @ Michal.Chrostowski on Dec 16, 2011 9:31 AM
  Michal.Chrostowski wrote:
  Hi David,
  
  We have been using Wily installed on Suse Linux Enterprise at VMware farm for more than 4 years.
  We have got 4 production collectors and 2 MOMs (hot failover) version 9.0.6.
  On each collector we have got 40k metrics and it works stable.
  
  Good luck with migration !
  Thank you Michal.
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SergioMorales Dec 16, 2011 9:38 AM
You might faced some synch issue, please refer to the below Tuesday tip I sent last June:
19051467

Regards,
Sergio
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- dave.richards @ SergioMorales on Dec 16, 2011 10:28 AM
  SergioMorales wrote:
  You might faced some synch issue, please refer to the below Tuesday tip I sent last June:
  19051467
  
  Regards,
  Sergio
  OK thanks Sergio.
  It looks like an issue on the VMWare side rather than on Wily.
  Have there been many customers affected by this ?
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  - SergioMorales @ dave.richards on Dec 16, 2011 10:45 AM
    Yes
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    - dave.richards @ SergioMorales on Dec 16, 2011 11:14 AM
      SergioMorales wrote:
      Yes
      OK thanks for the information.
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- Michal.Chrostowski @ SergioMorales on Dec 19, 2011 7:01 AM
  I agree with you Sergio, ntp synchronization was essential to have stable Wily environment on VMware and Linux.
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Hiko_Davis Dec 19, 2011 2:02 PM
On VMWare, it's critical to get your VMWare admins to give you CPU reservations.
For the MOM, give it 5000MHz; for collectors, 4000MHz.
Most admins will consider APM to just be another application so they're mentality is to not give it reservations. Make sure you get these reservations.
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- dave.richards @ Hiko_Davis on Jan 5, 2012 2:32 PM
  hdavis wrote:
  On VMWare, it's critical to get your VMWare admins to give you CPU reservations.
  For the MOM, give it 5000MHz; for collectors, 4000MHz.
  Most admins will consider APM to just be another application so they're mentality is to not give it reservations. Make sure you get these reservations.
  OK, thanks for the heads up.
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