Re: [GENERAL] Running postgresql as a VMware ESx client

2008-11-24 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Glen Eustace escribió: > >> Generally speaking, virtualization allows you to take a bunch of low >> powered servers and make them live in one big box saving money on >> electricity and management. Generally speaking, database sers are big >> powerful boxes with lots of hard disks and gigs upon gig

Re: [GENERAL] Running postgresql as a VMware ESx client

2008-11-24 Thread Magnus Hagander
Glen Eustace wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering whether anyone has had any experience running postgresql > in a vm under ESx. VMware provides significant HA/DR oppurtunities and > we would like to use it if we can. The DBase would be on a EMC SAN > hosted LUN and the ESx servers would be dual

Re: [GENERAL] Running postgresql as a VMware ESx client

2008-11-23 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Glen Eustace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Generally speaking, virtualization allows you to take a bunch of low >> powered servers and make them live in one big box saving money on >> electricity and management. Generally speaking, database sers are big >> powerf

Re: [GENERAL] Running postgresql as a VMware ESx client

2008-11-23 Thread Glen Eustace
Generally speaking, virtualization allows you to take a bunch of low powered servers and make them live in one big box saving money on electricity and management. Generally speaking, database sers are big powerful boxes with lots of hard disks and gigs upon gigs of ram to handle terabytes of da

Re: [GENERAL] Running postgresql as a VMware ESx client

2008-11-23 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Glen Eustace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering whether anyone has had any experience running postgresql in > a vm under ESx. VMware provides significant HA/DR oppurtunities and we > would like to use it if we can. The DBase would be on a EMC