Slightly, maybe, offtopic.

[Julian Field]

Richard Frovarp wrote:
> 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.
With that hardware spec, it should be capable of handling many times 
that mail volume.

I have a box with 4 dual-core 2.8GHz Xeons, with 15K RPM drives and 
plenty of RAM. It handles over 2 million messages per day, with 2 virus 
scanners and all the MailScanner functionality switched on, including 
SpamAssassin.

The only servers I have running VMWare are for our own-a-pc service we 
offer to our students who need full administrator rights on a dedicated 
machine of their own for their projects. With 1 box we can serve 40 or 
50 virtual PC's as few of the students need to access their PC at the 
same time.

Jules

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