VMware for Cyrus?

[Reinaldo de Carvalho]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Sebastian Hagedorn
<Hagedorn at uni-koeln.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> today I've learned that the Dell hardware our mail servers run on is out of
> support, because it's more than 5 years old (time flies ...). We were
> planning an upgrade from RHEL 3 to RHEL 5 anyway, but now we will try to
> accelerate that procedure somewhat. Our systems group is pushing VMware ESX
> on all levels. Previously VMware was not recommended for IO-heavy tasks, but
> apparently that's not the case anymore. Currently we have an ESX 3.5
> environment, but that will be upgraded to ESX 4 by the end of January.
>
> My question is if there have been recent experiences running a Cyrus server
> with up to 2,500 concurrent IMAP connections under VMware ESX? I've found
> some posts in the archives, e.g.

You need analyse the I/O consumition.

# iostat -d 1


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