Hello Mike, On Mon, Jan 06, 2025 at 01:10:51PM +0100, Mike Neo wrote:
> I currently have 2 servers Dell R310 with Bird 1.6 on Ubuntu > (Active/Passive), one full BGP table and one IX, traffic around 400Mbps, > simple BGP routing. I also have an HA cluster built on ESXi and I wonder if > it would be a good idea to run BIRD (maybe 2.0/3.0?) on a VM (Ubuntu) on > this ESXi HA cluster. What are your experiences with this, what are the > limitations and recommendations? It will run, BIRD just works if you give enough memory to hold the tables. I have recently encountered some performance problems with Netlink when trying to feed 10+ container nodes with full BGP at once, but ESXi is a full virtualization, so no problem there. And please upgrade from 1.6, that's out of support for more than a year already. Have a nice day! Maria -- Maria Matejka (she/her) | BIRD Team Leader | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
