Does Sonic products run on VMware type platforms, If so is it supported and/or certified. If not any idea are there any plans of moving towards supportability.
Plans to support virtualized environments with Sonic 7.6.1 have been discussed, but since 7.6.1 has not yet shipped, this cannot be guaranteed. I would suggest that you discuss your particular needs with your local sales representative. They will no only be able to present your requirements to Sonic product management, but will also be able to keep you updated with current status.
I have done significant testing within VMWare on Linux. I have not seen any issues to date. In my opinion you are fine to use Sonic within VMWare and should not experience any issues.
I am currently running 7.5.2 MQ & ESB.
We have been running Sonic ESB 7.01 on VMWare and Windows 2003 Server in a well used development environment without any issues. Personally, I wouldn't have any reservations about using it in a Production environment.
I beg to differ with VMWare ESX running Sonic 7.5 on Windows. When we did load testing, there was a significant difference in performance between VM and hardware. I would think twice before putting in production environment.
--Subbu
Although I do agree, I would most likely not run MQ on VMWare in a Production env. I currently only use VMWare for non-prod/perf.
Could you please explain your issues in more detail, I am curious what type of issues you encountered.
1) Are the physical specs that we're allocated to the VMWare guest machine identical to those of the Physical machine? (CPU, Mem)
2) Did you switch from Local Disk to SAN.
3) We're there other VM's running on the ESX server at the same time you did your performance testing?
4) Do you have any stats to report. Was it 5% slower or 200% slower. What type of tests did you run?
b) Was it CPU or Disk that was slow? or both
We are in a planning stage on whether we should use sonic in a vmware installation. I have heard from many folks it is ok to use it in dev but not in prod. Sonic does not support it persa but they have PSO's that run it without issues. I just wanted to get a general idea and feedback. Also to add to this and to another topic about sonic's ability to use multiple cpu's ( no answer as yet from sonic tech or development team) the vmware idea came to mind.