[geeks] Virtual Hosting, with a twist

[Phil Brutsche]

James Fogg wrote:
> I work for a company that has, among other products, a network device
> management tool. It "talks" to network devices on the usual ports,
> telnet, ssh, snmp, tftp etc. When we've had clients try to run our
> product on a VMWare instance the performance goes in the toilet.
> 
> Our application is pretty light weight (as light weight as a Java app
> can be anyways).

Are you sure it's the number of network sockets and not something else
about your app?

Not all workloads are VMware friendly, and Java applications are one of
them...

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Phil Brutsche
phil at tux.obix.com