Slightly, maybe, offtopic.

[Richard Frovarp]

DAve wrote:
> We are investing in VMWare and some other technologies quickly. I 
> understand or have seen mention of, others running MailScanner within 
> VMWare. I am beginning to think that has great potential from a DR and 
> multiple NOC point of view.
>
> Any pitfalls in running MailScanner in VMWare I should know about?
>
> Thanks,
>
> DAve
>

We do have one of our MailScanner boxes under VMWare. We are using their 
free VMWare server option. The hardware has 2 dual core 3.2 Xeon (so 4 
cores total) with 10K RPM drives in RAID 1. It doesn't do much else that 
is processor intensive on it. This VM has 1 GB of RAM. It handles our 
internal mail without much of an issue. Since it is internal mail we 
don't run any MTA defenses in front of it. It handles 40,000 messages a 
day quite easily, with most of the message occurring during business 
hours. We do run full SA scans against the mail.

I can't think of any pitfalls at the moment.