Virtualizing Tessitura Servers

We have all of our Tessitura systems on one server, separate VMs.  No problems after 2 years…

Kirk Mortensen

Database Administrator

TheatreWorks

I remember from last year's conference a number of organizations have had great success in virtualizing Tessitura servers. We are thinking of doing that this year, and am looking for tips and pitfalls.

Specifically, does it make sense to combine the LIVE and TEST web servers on one piece of hardware and separate VMs? Of course that shifts risk to hardware failure, but with our budgets we can never truly retire risks, and instead just have to pick where we place it. Has anyone had good/bad experiences with that? Does the Tessitura Network support that setup?

Also, in terms of the rest of the Tessitura server infrastructure, do any of you have any examples of your virtualized setups that are working really well? Any examples of what not to do? Are there certain apps and/or services for which we should avoid virtualization? Are there apps/services which should not exist on the same hardware, even if they exist in separate VMs?

Thanks for your help!

Britt

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We have all of our Tessitura systems on one server, separate VMs.  No problems after 2 years…

Kirk Mortensen

Database Administrator

TheatreWorks

I remember from last year's conference a number of organizations have had great success in virtualizing Tessitura servers. We are thinking of doing that this year, and am looking for tips and pitfalls.

Specifically, does it make sense to combine the LIVE and TEST web servers on one piece of hardware and separate VMs? Of course that shifts risk to hardware failure, but with our budgets we can never truly retire risks, and instead just have to pick where we place it. Has anyone had good/bad experiences with that? Does the Tessitura Network support that setup?

Also, in terms of the rest of the Tessitura server infrastructure, do any of you have any examples of your virtualized setups that are working really well? Any examples of what not to do? Are there certain apps and/or services for which we should avoid virtualization? Are there apps/services which should not exist on the same hardware, even if they exist in separate VMs?

Thanks for your help!

Britt

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