Re: VMs versus Physical machines

2013-09-12 Thread Aaron Turner
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 5:42 AM, Shahab Yunus wrote: > I admit about missing details. Sorry for that. The thing is that I was > looking for guidance at the high-level so we can then sort out myself what > fits our requirements and use-cases (mainly because we are at the stage > that they could be

Re: VMs versus Physical machines

2013-09-12 Thread Shahab Yunus
I admit about missing details. Sorry for that. The thing is that I was looking for guidance at the high-level so we can then sort out myself what fits our requirements and use-cases (mainly because we are at the stage that they could be molded according to hardware and software limitations/features

Re: VMs versus Physical machines

2013-09-11 Thread Aaron Turner
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Shahab Yunus wrote: > Thanks Aaron for the reply. Yes, VMs or the nodes will be in cloud if we > don't go the physical route. > > " Look how Cassandra scales and provides redundancy. " > But how does it differ for physical machines or VMs (in cloud.) Or after > yo

Re: VMs versus Physical machines

2013-09-11 Thread Robert Coli
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Shahab Yunus wrote: > But how does it differ for physical machines or VMs (in cloud.) Or after > your first comment, are you saying that there is no difference whether we > use physical or VMs (in cloud)? > Physical will always outperform virtual. He's just saying

Re: VMs versus Physical machines

2013-09-11 Thread Shahab Yunus
Thanks Aaron for the reply. Yes, VMs or the nodes will be in cloud if we don't go the physical route. " Look how Cassandra scales and provides redundancy. " But how does it differ for physical machines or VMs (in cloud.) Or after your first comment, are you saying that there is no difference whet

Re: VMs versus Physical machines

2013-09-11 Thread Aaron Turner
Physical machines unless you're running your cluster in the cloud (AWS/etc). Reason is simple: Look how Cassandra scales and provides redundancy. Aaron Turner http://synfin.net/ Twitter: @synfinatic https://github.com/synfinatic/tcpreplay - Pcap editing and replay tools for Unix & Windows

VMs versus Physical machines

2013-09-11 Thread Shahab Yunus
Hello, We are deciding whether to get VMs or physical machines for a Cassandra cluster. I know this is a very high-level question depending on lots of factors and in fact I want to know that how to tackle this is and what factors should we take into consideration while trying to find the answer.