OT: Run MScanner in a virtualized environment.

[Peter Nitschke]

I have an AMD X2 6000 with 8Gb RAM running Centos 5/64 as host for
VM-Server 1.04.

It has 5 guests - 4 x Centos with a mixture of MailScanner, DNS,
gateway/firewall, proxy and web servers plus a Win2k pop3 server.

The MS pc handled 1,978,400 messages last month, though most were rejected
at the MTA level leaving 79,000 actually handled by MS.

No problems at all.

Total load on the box only goes over about 30 when I do a backup.

Peter


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On 1/07/2008 at 3:53 PM Eduardo Casarero wrote:

>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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