TEM Server on virtual server

Usage and Config Platform
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(imported topic written by lmchavez91)

Hi, we are getting requests to document very specifically why it is recommended that the TEM server not be hosted on a virtual server. Where can I get the most recent position statement from Tivoli on this, as well as a description of the potential impact when running a virtual TEM server? Thank you!

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(imported comment written by BenKus)

Hi Lisa,

Here is the (old) KB article that discusses this topic:

http://support.bigfix.com/cgi-bin/kbdirect.pl?id=366

More discussion is here:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=405371

Ben

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(imported comment written by lmchavez91)

Hi, the link to this older KB article no longer works, is there a new link for it? Thank you!

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(imported comment written by jfschafer)

Links don’t work (common problem on IBM site) so I can’t comment on the old info but I can tell you I’ve been running Bigfix on VmWare VSphere 4 and now 5 and it runs better than when I did on a physical system. Backend SQL Database server is also a virtual machine in VSphere.

I’m really curious on why Oracle, Exchange, SQL ect can run blazingly fast on things like VSphere 5 and IBM hasn’t figured out that virtualization is not the same as it was even a few years ago. I highly, highly, highly recommend you update your documents and embrace virtualization as many customers (think large ones here) are implementing virtualization first policies and I can tell you I’m one of many who would drop a product if it doesn’t support running on a virtual server. Please read up on virtualization IBM, it’s a good thing. If you don’t you will most definately miss out on new cusomters (very very large ones). $$$$$$$$$

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(imported comment written by BenKus)

Hi jfshafer,

You are probably right that virtualization is much better than before… and these days, we give guidance to our team that virtualization isn’t as bad as it used to be for the IO penalty…

Having said that, the bigger problem with virtualization is when a big deployment that uses virtualization on a shared server or a shared disk. You can probably get away with it on a smaller deployment (<10,000 seats), but for the big deployments, you probably need dedicated hardware (virtualized or not).

Ben