[rt-users] Hardware Config

[Tim Cutts]

I've been following this discussion (rather belatedly) with some  
interest.  One thing I haven't heard anyone discuss yet:

Has anyone tried running RT in a virtual machine?  I'm about to move  
our RT 3.4.2 server onto a virtual machine.  I've configured the RT VM  
to be actually really quite weedy (32-bit and only 2 GB RAM), and  
perhaps I need to change that, but I figure that VMware ESX probably  
does quite a good job of caching the disk its using anyway.  The  
actual physical hardware is a quad socket quad core machine with 64 GB  
of RAM.  The underlying storage is StorageWorks EVA on a SAN, so it  
should be pretty quick.

Has anyone tried this sort of thing?  Am I about to burn myself  
badly?  Our turnover of tickets is pretty low - only a few hundred  
tickets a week.

Tim


-- 
 The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research 
 Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a 
 company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered 
 office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE.