Re: Postgresql in a Virtual Machine

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Dong Ye <yed(at)vmware(dot)com>, "Gudmundsson Martin (mg)" <martin(dot)mg(dot)gudmundsson(at)volvo(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnakangas(at)vmware(dot)com>, "pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Postgresql in a Virtual Machine
Date: 2013-11-29 01:41:58
Message-ID: CAB7nPqQSKcXrs0=11wwuCX0+cqJ-7iCMx2qcVxUgmxbipFxmWQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Dong Ye <yed(at)vmware(dot)com> wrote:
>
>> As Heikki commented, VMware recently compared Postgres performance in
>> an ESX (5.1) VM versus in a comparable native Linux. We saw 1.
>> ESX-level locking causes no vertical scalability degradation, 2.
>
> FYI Vmware has an optimized version of Postgresql for use on VSphere
> etc: http://www.vmware.com/products/vfabric-postgres/
There is actually no fork of the core in vFabric Postgres, Postgres
core is unmodified as of release 9.3. Have a look at the release
notes:
https://www.vmware.com/support/vfabric-postgres/doc/vfabric-postgres-93-release-notes.html
--
Michael

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