Re: Running Subversion on a Windows VM

Cool... That is exactly the encouragement I was looking for! You bring up a good point... We have the W2K3 box plugged into a SATABeast right now, but the ESX box is hooked up to our SAN, which should be a bonus in going the VM host route. Sounds like I am heading into a busy weekend making this happen, and as far as the network problems go - I made our Ops team promise to beat the network into submission on a regular basis for me. :)

Thanks for the quick responses guys!

Chris

On 7/2/09 3:52 PM, "Andy Levy" <andy.levy_at_gmail.com> wrote:

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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From: Christopher Viaggi <christopher.viaggi_at_hds.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:42:53 -0400
To: Chris Lee <chrisl_at_angieslist.com>, <users_at_subversion.tigris.org>
Subject: RE: Running Subversion on a Windows VM

Chris,

We run our subversion repository on Win2003 in a VM container without incident. I run multiple subversion services on different ports as windows services as well as serving it out through apache. We have about 5 subversion services (to keep the repositories and users separate from one another) and have a total of about 20 users, of which maybe 10 are located in the Bay Area the rest are offshore in India. As far as I know we haven't had any problems which haven't been network related not subversion related.

//C

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