Keep your physical machine as passive so that it can take over in worst case scenarios.
From: rusty.major AT sungard DOT com
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:35:12 -0600
To: Brian_Thomas AT playstation.sony DOT com; VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup (Virtualized Master & Media Servers)
Hey Brian,
We have a customer that has virtualized 10 media servers and haven�t seen any issues with performance. The master is a physical server.
Two things I can immediately think of: Resource contention of the VMs and any features that move the VMs around to optimize resources (VMware does this with Distributed Resource Scheduler [DRS]).
Unless it�s a pretty small domain, and there isn�t a need to virtualize, I would opt for physical servers. Maybe I�m just a traditionalist.
-Rusty
From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Brian_Thomas AT PlayStation.Sony DOT com
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 5:38 PM
To: VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup (Virtualized Master & Media Servers)
I work for Sony Playstation and we are moving a racked stand-alone Master & Media server configuration to a new data center.
I am on version 7.1 and am considering virtualizing the entire infrastructure. Has anyone successfully done this yet and did you run into any gotchas?
Regards
Brian
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