Bird - hardware, vm.

[David S.]

Hi,

How about "kernel bypass" to increase the network performance?
In my case, I installed netmap to increase the network performance and I'm
not sure if it's work on virtual machine.

CMIIW



Best regards,
David S.
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On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 3:48 AM, Lauro, John <jlauro at umflint.edu> wrote:

> My 2cents, only put something on a small dedicated server that is not
> mission critical.
>
> You can achieve over 10gbps under vmware, and if you need more memory, add
> it without rebooting...  more cpu, do it live without reboot... faster cpu
> becomes available, then move it live without downtime.  Need to reboot it
> takes seconds instead of minutes, hardware failure, let vmware reboot it on
> different hardware automatically (or setup redundant vms on different
> hosts).  Myths about  traffic and packet per second are just FUD. Not
> saying you can't get a benchmark to be almost 10% better on the same
> hardware for workloads that are not cpu bound (cpu bound not even that much
> difference), but you are better off buying a 10% faster machine and take
> the advantages of vmware.  Not to mention other advantages such as
> snapshots, etc...  Hardware and licensing might cost more, but not as much
> as down time or time saved in productivity.
>
> How would a small server with dedicated network interface be better?
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Bird-users [bird-users-bounces at network.cz] on behalf of David S. [
> david at zeromail.us]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2017 5:31 AM
> To: Mike Neo
> Cc: bird-users at network.cz
> Subject: Re: Bird - hardware, vm.
>
> Hi,
>
> Which linux distro do you prefer for stability, security etc.?
> I use FreeBSD and CentOS for route servers. You can choose your favorite
> linux distro.
>
> Is it good choice to install Bird as vmware vm?
> You can run Bird on small machine but please concern about the traffic and
> packet per second.
> Small server with dedicated network interface would be better than VM.
>
> Just my 2cent
>
> Best regards,
> David S.
>
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