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
We do have the web gateway server on the one piece of hardware. Our site itself, however, is hosted elsewhere. I guess we’ll be a good guinea pig during our testing of the upgrade for figuring out how the increased load will effect things…J
Kirk Mortensen
Database Administrator
TheatreWorks
From: Tessitura Technical Forum [mailto:forums-technical@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Rich TepperSent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 5:16 AMTo: Kirk MortensenSubject: Re: [Tessitura Technical Forum] Virtualizing Tessitura Servers
I have an additional question to tack on to this thread. For those of you that have virtualized everything onto one piece of hardware are you including the web gateway? We are looking ahead to version 11 and the load increase it will add to the web gateway. Currently we arein the virtualization planning stages and are trying to decide whether the web gateway should be included in our virtualization scheme or kept separate since we don't know how the increased load will affect it and the environment.
-Rich
From: Nathan Campbell <bounce-nathancampbell1231@tessituranetwork.com>Sent: 3/23/2011 8:03:12 PM
I've not seen any problems that one could specifically correlate with virtualization technology.
We're running 4 ESXi servers with vMotion so if one server fails, the vm's will just move to the next available system. We don't runTest and Live on the same hardware but they both share the same SAN device so that is our bigger risk point of failure. In terms of the actual breakout of services, we have the Tessitura SQL server running on one guest which is dedicated to only that function (not even hosting any of our other SQL databases). All of the ancillary services are running on a second guest. Same setup for the test environment.
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