[Xymon] vmware or similar virtual image

[Poppy, Ben]

I agree, in fact, going to a virtual solution increases robustness of the monitoring server itself. You are no longer relying on a single piece of hardware as a single point of failure. Well-built vmware clusters have the ability to fail over to other servers and automatically bring the virtual servers back online, thus eliminating single points of failures. This is especially true when teamed with multiple path disk systems and networks..

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From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Schwartz
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2012 10:18 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] vmware or similar virtual image

> I would, however, take exception to virtualizing your monitoring server...
> call me crazy or old-school, but it always seemed wrong to me.

IMHO this is depends on the robustness of your virtualization solution.

We're moving onto a large scale VMWare cluster with EMC and HP/3Par storage backends. I'm not at all worried about the xymon server (currently running on a G4 which is one of the smallest and oldest boxes in the shop) _______________________________________________
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