On 2/12/2013 12:25 AM, adfel70 wrote:
I'm currently running a solr cluster on 10 physical machines. I'm considering moving to virtual machines. Any insights on this issue? Have anyone tried this? any best practices?
You'll definitely see some performance degradation. How much is very hard to say.
I started with Solr on virtual machines, first vmware esxi (free version) and then Xen, one core/shard per VM. I later moved to the bare metal (same machines) and began running multiple cores/shards per Solr instance, one instance per machine. Performance is better and I don't have to maintain as many copies of the OS.
It did work perfectly when virtualized, though. Thanks, Shawn
