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Subject: Re: ActiveMQ on Physical Server vs. VM
From: Johan Edstrom <seijoed@gmail.com>
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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 10:57:54 -0800
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Like with pretty much any Java app, you end up running a VM in a VM.....
Performance on IO, CPU sharing and so on will be impacted.
That doesn't mean that you couldn't scale in different ways with more VM =
instances instead.


On Jan 24, 2014, at 6:37 AM, artnaseef <art@artnaseef.com> wrote:

> Interesting question (dedicatd NIC) - that's more a VM question than =
an
> ActiveMQ question.  With sharing the NIC with other load, the issue =
becomes,
> what other loads are sharing and how much?  Very much a question =
outside of
> ActiveMQ itself.
>=20
> Is it possible for a VM host to dedicate a physical NIC to one of the =
VMs?=20
> Or to dedicate some bandwidth on the NIC to one of the VMs?
>=20
> The bottom line is that, from an ActiveMQ perspective, there's nothing
> inheritenly different between a VM and real hardware.  Resource sizes,
> sharing, and the like are the same questions with and without VMs, =
although
> VMs do change the basic resource allocation by their very nature.
>=20
> If anyone has benchmarks for various hardware platforms, that would be
> really helpful for this question.
>=20
> Please share any knowledge you find on this front - I'm curious.
>=20
>=20
>=20
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