Has anyone successfully virtualized Moodle and SUSE Linux Xen? I need to move my Moddle server and I would like to know if anyone has seen any problems virtualizing Moodle.
Thanks!
I can't speak SUSE/Xen specifically, but I have virtualized Moodle. We're currently using VMWare server to run a Red Hat Enterprise Linux guest within a Windows Server 2003 host.
It's been pretty stable, except the guest system's clock constantly drifts. After setting up network time, that problem is solved.
Performance has so far been comparable to a traditional OS, but we're just starting out with Moodle (86 users today, 199 this week, 260 this month).
It's been pretty stable, except the guest system's clock constantly drifts. After setting up network time, that problem is solved.
Performance has so far been comparable to a traditional OS, but we're just starting out with Moodle (86 users today, 199 this week, 260 this month).
Thanks for the information, I'm going to move it over today and see what happens. Thanks!
I can't comment specifically on XEN, however we have installed Moodle in an OpenVZ virtual private server. OpenVZ the technology that drives Parallels Virtuozzo.
One note about resource allocation, which XEN and OpenVZ share:
If you perform a Moodle upgrade for a large site, you'll need upwards of 1GB of memory allocated to your VPS/XEN environment. The upgrade process is a real memory monster.
One note about resource allocation, which XEN and OpenVZ share:
If you perform a Moodle upgrade for a large site, you'll need upwards of 1GB of memory allocated to your VPS/XEN environment. The upgrade process is a real memory monster.
I've virtualized Slackware Linux on VMware on a Linux host. Others have moved it to a Windows host. There were no problems at all.
We haven't put it to production use, neither benchmarked. So can't say anything about stability or performance.
We haven't put it to production use, neither benchmarked. So can't say anything about stability or performance.