topic Re: Virtual machine in Alfresco Archive

Virtual machine

patil — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:14:27 GMT

Is it good practice to use virtual machine in the production environment? i am having around 50 concurrent users and 1 TB of data.

Re: Virtual machine

mrogers — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:39:28 GMT

It should be O.K. as long as you give it enough memory.

Obviously there's a cost in performance running on a vm.

Re: Virtual machine

rdanner — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:49:24 GMT

In general we have found it to be a best practice to use physical hardware unless there is a really good reason not to. It's not that you cannot run Alfresco on virtual hardware but as Mark points out, it has to be set up properly. In my experience it often is not. Alfresco uses quite a bit of memory and can be very I/O intense.

It also depends a great deal on what else is being virtualized on top of the same hardware. If there is contention for resources you will see performance impacts.