Re: Zimbra HA using VMWARE

[David Emmerich <dpemmerich@eiu.edu>]

We are currently in the planning phase of migrating to VMWare.  I've seen some people on the forums that are doing it without much issue.  This post may be helpful: http://www.zimbra.com/forums/installation/14121-virtualization-zimbra.html

I've also been told that Zimbra has seen up to 25% overhead from VMWare, so you probably want to plan for that.

I currently have a single server test install in a VM right now that runs fine, but it doesn't get hit with a lot of traffic.  What is your timeframe?  If it's ahead of ours, I would definitely be interested to see how it fares for you.  We plan to go live in December this year(gotta get off the Mac PPC's first).

David Emmerich
Systems Administrators - Network Specialist II
Eastern Illinois University

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray A. Gardener" <R.A.Gardener@shu.ac.uk>
To: zimbra-hied-admins@sfu.ca
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 12:08:26 PM (GMT-0600) America/Chicago
Subject: Zimbra HA using VMWARE




Hi, 



is anyone using VMWARE's Vmotion for HA? We are interested in this because we have a well developed virtual machine infrastructure but little experience of Red Hat clustering. 

Ray Gardener 
E-Communications 
LITS 
Sheffield Hallam University 
Howard Street 
Sheffield 
0114 225 4926 
R.A.Gardener@shu.ac.uk