On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:38 PM, János Löbb <janos.l...@yale.edu> wrote:
> > On Feb 18, 2009, at 3:24 PM, Alan Chaney wrote: > > >> >> I agree with Jorge - I run several Tomcats under VMware for both >> production and development. >> >> However it is worth noting that if you use the appropriate vmware tools >> for your installation (vmware-guestd etc.) you get a significant performance >> boost on network accesses which may well be important for tomcat. (See >> vmxnet) YMMV. >> >> Regards >> >> Alan Chaney >> > I admin a fairly large deployment of tomcats on vmware server and now have started to move to xen as well and the only thing i can say is that if your application is IO intensive then you might notice slower performance vmware/xen unless you use block devices. For anything else, if you provision your VM with the same specs as a physical machine that you will compare it to then you should hardly notice any difference at all. /Jason
