[RADIATOR] VM or physical

[Ben Lisle]

Make sure your backend isn't blocking and it'll be fine.



On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 10:45 AM, Mark Picone <mark.picone at deakin.edu.au>
wrote:

> We have been running radius (and ~90% of our infrastructure) on VMs
> (ESX/vSphere) for 5+ years without any issues.
>
> We currently have 6 active servers behind an F5 load balancer which easily
> handles all our internal 802.1x etc. for our two main campuses.
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> Regards,
>
>
>
> *Mark Picone*
>
> Systems Administrator
>
> Deakin eSolutions
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> *Deakin University*
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> Geelong Waterfront Campus
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> 1 Gheringhap Street, Geelong, VIC 3220
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> Phone: +61 3 52479505 <//+61352479505/>
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> *From:* radiator-bounces at open.com.au [mailto:radiator-bounces at open.com.au]
> *On Behalf Of *Sasha Tchepourko
> *Sent:* Friday, 18 September 2015 10:23 AM
> *To:* radiator at open.com.au
> *Subject:* [RADIATOR] VM or physical
>
>
>
> Greetings everyone!
>
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>
> We are in process of virtualising our physical radius servers (to vmware)
> and wanted to get a general feel from users in the community here to see
> what is the preferred option, keep running on physical servers or move to
> vm... Obviously each option has it's own benefits and limitations, but as
> far as Radiator itself, any word of advise on what is the better platform?
> Anyone had any issues with running under vm worth mentioning?
>
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> Current Radiator servers setup in an active/active configuration with each
> of those servers processing around 1200 packets/min of dot1x auth for
> wireless networks and VPN with a number of handlers with pre/post hooks
> etc...
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> Thanks,
>
> Sasha.
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