Re: Admin Guide: Tuning 21.1.2 Disks and virtual servers

[Gavin Henry <ghenry@OpenLDAP.org>]

----- "Francis Swasey" <Frank.Swasey@uvm.edu> wrote:

> On 1/9/10 4:30 PM, Gavin Henry wrote:
> > ----- "Francis Swasey" <Frank.Swasey@uvm.edu> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Is the info in this section intended for only physical LDAP servers
> or
> >>  
> >> for servers that are virtual (such as VMware) as well?
> >>     
> >
> > Physical servers are faster as you have more control over the disks
> that aren't shared
> > underneath.
> >   
> 
> While that is usually true -- does it really answer the question I 
> asked?  Just because physical servers are normally faster does not to
> me 
> imply that this section of the Admin Guide was written with only 
> Physical servers in mind. 
> 
> So, let's say I'm crazy and I want to investigate putting ldap servers
> 
> on VMware Guests --- do I care about any of the directions in section
> 
> 21.1.2 about separating the logs and the db or not?
> 

Yes, that still applies for best performance.


-- 
Kind Regards,

Gavin Henry.
OpenLDAP Engineering Team.

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