Run MScanner in a virtualized environment.

[Jason Ede]

We had a small scale virtual running mailscaner that happily did for a business of 30ish people and ran for about 3 years and was only retired last week so it is possible but the virtual did struggle and mail was sometimes slow going through it but that didn't really matter in that case.

In that case it was a microsoft virtual environment and I think the virtual had just over 500MB to play with.

jason

-----Original Message-----
From: Eduardo Casarero <ecasarero at gmail.com>
Sent: 01 July 2008 20:26
To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Subject: OT: Run MScanner in a virtualized environment.


Hi guys, i know that it's not recomendable to run MS on virtualized HW
because of it's high cpu/io load. However, i'm doing some research
because my boss required it.

What products do you think that will work best? VMware? Xen? The
objective is that it has to be simple and quick to deploy. Also will
be useful in case the HW dies, so you quickly can have the emails
flowing (may be with delay, but working), until HW gets repaired.

We all know that installing MS servers takes a while, so having a
pre-installed image will reduce times.

Any thoughts?

Everything will be appreciated.

Eduardo.
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