How could this be?! EMC, owner of VMware does not support its own product to run virtualized? You got it daddy-o!
We are currently working on an upgrade of Documentum and we need a new home for the full-text index search module of Documentum, we asked EMC support if we can virtualize this piece, they told us no. Reference support note 43361 and line #5 clearly states If Index Server is running on VMware, this is not supported.
I really hope someone at VMware or EMC can collaborate on this and get it resolved. I know that EMC recently purchased Documentum, but a top priority would be to make sure all of their products work together in harmony.
Another sad day in the vSphere for me. (no pun intended)
:: December 19, 2008 by Rick Scherer
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6:30 am on January 26th, 2009
In my experience, most full-text indexing software companies *Strongly* recommend against virtualizing the indexing/search component. Usually these components are very CPU, memory, and I/O intensive, making them very poor candidates. Commvault and Symantec Enterprise Vault are two other examples that do not recommmend or support it. It’s not that they won’t work, in face for a dev/sandbox instance you can do it if you’re going to keep the dataset small. But for production, it’s not practical, you’ll end up devoting an entire host to it.