Running BIRD on Virtual Machines
Hi. We are currently setting up in a new site and are short on physical gear. Is it feasible to run 2 instances of BIRD on virtual machines. Regards JOSEPH MUGA OWINO, TECHNICAL OFFICER, <http://t.sidekickopen35.com/e1t/o/5/f18dQhb0S7ks8dDMPbW2n0x6l2B9gXrN7sKj6v5 dpBsW2BFKB48pTv46N5wfjWzd3_yKVZmZLR1k1H6H0?si=5122342703595520&pi=44523e3a-e 56e-4297-87dd-a3ca7379b3ee>
Hi Owino, In one of your neighboring countries exists bad experience with having the 2 VMs with the 2 birds on one phys. hardware. Hopefully you have 2 HW boxes both hosting the VMs and also hosting "other stuff". Frank On 2/9/2016 6:55 PM, Joseph M Owino wrote:
Hi.
We are currently setting up in a new site and are short on physical gear. Is it feasible to run 2 instances of BIRD on virtual machines.
Regards
JOSEPH MUGA OWINO, TECHNICAL OFFICER,
I run BIRD in our datacenter exclusively in VMs. I run 6 different routers as VMs in a cluster of 4 hypervisors. I do take care to reserve the CPU and memory resources in the hypervisors for these VMs though. On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 11:14 AM Frank Habicht <geier@geier.ne.tz> wrote:
Hi Owino,
In one of your neighboring countries exists bad experience with having the 2 VMs with the 2 birds on one phys. hardware.
Hopefully you have 2 HW boxes both hosting the VMs and also hosting "other stuff".
Frank
On 2/9/2016 6:55 PM, Joseph M Owino wrote:
Hi.
We are currently setting up in a new site and are short on physical gear. Is it feasible to run 2 instances of BIRD on virtual machines.
Regards
JOSEPH MUGA OWINO, TECHNICAL OFFICER,
On 9 Feb 2016, at 16:13, Frank Habicht <geier@geier.ne.tz> wrote:
In one of your neighboring countries exists bad experience with having the 2 VMs with the 2 birds on one phys. hardware.
I have no idea why that should be an issue. I run bird as an appliance (might well be more than one per physical hardware, in fact I've run it in containers) and there is no issue. -- Alex Bligh
Hi, On 2/11/2016 1:52 AM, Alex Bligh wrote:
On 9 Feb 2016, at 16:13, Frank Habicht <geier@geier.ne.tz> wrote:
In one of your neighboring countries exists bad experience with having the 2 VMs with the 2 birds on one phys. hardware.
I have no idea why that should be an issue. I run bird as an appliance (might well be more than one per physical hardware, in fact I've run it in containers) and there is no issue.
things would be bad if the one phys. hardward fails. And I was assuming/hoping OP has access to more than one hardware. Of course 2 VMs in one box already helps with software and config issues. Frank
Am 09.02.2016 um 16:55 schrieb Joseph M Owino:
Hi. Hi Joseph,
We are currently setting up in a new site and are short on physical gear. Is it feasible to run 2 instances of BIRD on virtual machines. we run for testing purposes just a whole bunch of Linux VMs with BIRD and even emulated Ciscos in a GNS3 environment on a nested virtualiser. That is, one Linux VM on top of VMware is a virtualisation host for a GNS3 environment using Virtualbox and other emulators (MIPS for Cisco). This one VM is the host for approx. 15 routers, most of them with BIRD. And except for some issues with the GNS3 environment, the routing tests work fine.
Regards hth
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On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 06:55:49PM +0300, Joseph M Owino wrote:
Hi.
We are currently setting up in a new site and are short on physical gear. Is it feasible to run 2 instances of BIRD on virtual machines.
I don't know about any significant issues. -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'Santiago' Zajicek (email: santiago@crfreenet.org) OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so."
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