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Re: Running Subversion on a Windows VM

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:52:39 -0400

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 15:34, Chris<chrisl_at_angieslist.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
> I am about to make some adjustments to the way we are hosting our subversion
> repository, but I have some performance concerns in doing so.  I know there
> were a couple email threads posted on  svn.haxx.se a while ago, but I didn’t
> really get what I needed from them.  Anyway, here is the scenario and what I
> would like to know:
>
> I work in a mid-sized shop(20 devs) that is currently running Subversion 1.6
> (as a windows service) on a Windows 2003 box right now, but the box itself
> is old and we are going to swap it out and use it for something else soon.
>  So, there are arrangements being made on what to do with the repository...
> i.e. what to put it on next.  I am also mirroring this primary repository to
> an off-site location with our production DR stuff.  The thought is to spin
> up a Windows 2003 VM (hosted on one of our ESX boxes), move the primary
> repository over to it, and continue life as normal.  I am a huge VM fan and
> should just know better probably, but are there any performance concerns I
> SHOULD have and investigate more into... Has anyone run things this way and
> stuck with it for a lengthy period?   If so, what has your experience
> been... good... bad... no diff ?
>
> Any feedback would be much appreciated.

I'm running 4 repositories, hosted via Apache, on W2K3 in a VM (ESX
3.something). Repositories are stored on our SAN. Haven't had any
trouble.

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