I have a customer who is inclined to consolidate their 5-10K users from
a couple of qmail servers onto a "high power" VMWare server. I
understand VMWare conceptually, and have seen some minor conflicts noted
in general email threads for other products. However, I haven't worked
directly with
I've not used VMware specifically with vpopmail/qmail however I've used it to
test and deploy a number of other apps. Essentially all you need to really
worry about is performance, particularly of IO. This is alleviated if you use a
SAN to supply your virtual disks, or if you pass through the un
Actually you do. The vmware tools provide a replacement network and disk
driver which improve both network I/O and disk I/O by a fair bit. I don't
run a desktop on any of my servers, but still use their toolkit.
Just my $0.02CAD ;)
t.
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