[Spacewalk-list] Migrate from physical server to VM...any gotchas?

Fri Jun 15 12:51:51 UTC 2012

I can offer some encouragement at least and say that I have been running
Spacewalk in a VM since 0.6.  The only thing I'd say is to make sure the
VM is sized appropriately.  I've had to go back and add more vCPU's and
RAM a couple times (and disk) and each time I did, it made a huge
improvement.  Moreover, make sure you do a database dump before taking a
snapshot.  It hasn't happened to me yet, but technically, if you roll back
to a snapshot of your VM, the database *could* get corrupted.

Greg Wojtak
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On 2012-06-14 3:08 PM, "Sean Carolan" <scarolan at gmail.com> wrote:

>We are planning to move our spacewalk installation from a physical
>server onto a VMware guest.  The primary reasons for doing this are
>portability and snapshots.
>
>Has anyone else moved a Spacewalk installation from one server to
>another?  Any gotchas or things to look out for?  Also if you have any
>documentation about moving an existing installation, please let me
>know.  Our Spacewalk version is 1.7, and we're using PostgreSQL for
>the DB backend.  Both are running on the same host.
>
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