Hello Mike, On Mon, Jan 06, 2025 at 01:10:51PM +0100, Mike Neo wrote:
I currently have 2 servers Dell R310 with Bird 1.6 on Ubuntu (Active/Passive), one full BGP table and one IX, traffic around 400Mbps, simple BGP routing. I also have an HA cluster built on ESXi and I wonder if it would be a good idea to run BIRD (maybe 2.0/3.0?) on a VM (Ubuntu) on this ESXi HA cluster. What are your experiences with this, what are the limitations and recommendations?
It will run, BIRD just works if you give enough memory to hold the tables. I have recently encountered some performance problems with Netlink when trying to feed 10+ container nodes with full BGP at once, but ESXi is a full virtualization, so no problem there. And please upgrade from 1.6, that's out of support for more than a year already. Have a nice day! Maria -- Maria Matejka (she/her) | BIRD Team Leader | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.