[Xymon] Xymon server on vmWare?

[Josh Luthman]

CentOS 7 on ESXi for many years, I would guess 4+.  I believe the CentOS 6
was also virtual but that's too far back to recall.

Josh Luthman
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On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 2:35 AM Mark O. Stitson <mark at stitson.com> wrote:

> I have seen packet drops towards the Xymon server when the Vmware host has
> been overloaded. The solution was to ensure that the Xymon server gets
> enough priority.
>
> Mark
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> On 28 September 2019, 01:00, kspringer at innovateteam.com wrote:
>
> We run our Xymon server as a VM, and have for many years with no problems.
> It has the added bonus of doing Snapshots and full Vm backups when updates
> or changes need done.
>
> Thanks,
> Kris Springer
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Thurston <john.thurston at alaska.gov>
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Sent: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 5:48 PM
> Subject: [Xymon] Xymon server on vmWare?
>
> For the past 20 years, we've run our Xymon/Hobbit/Big Brother server on
> a host independent of the majority of our infrastructure. I'm now
> considering installing at least one of our servers (probably with
> CentOS) on vmWare ESX.
>
> Has anyone experienced difficulty with this?
>
> I'm currently wondering about the interaction of xymonnet with the
> virtual NIC.
>
>
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> John.Thurston at alaska.gov
> Department of Administration
> State of Alaska
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