Dedicated hardware or Virtual Hardware

Flaviu

Hello,

I have a PoC of Vertica to one of my clients. For this Poc I have virtual machines. I would like to know if for production it is recommended to have dedicated hardware or the system can be run on virtual machines also?

Navin_C

Hi Flaviu,

I prefer dedicated hardware for production environment, as it much easy to figure out if any issue in hardware, you don't have to be dependent on support for any issues in hardware.
Plus, It has been observed Vertica performs better on dedicated hardware when compared with Virtual machines, counting the number of aspects like network between Virtual machines, management of virtual machines, deployment on virtual machines.

Hope this helps.

R_McKeon

Hello Flaviu,

Virtual machines (HP or others) are not supported in a production environment. This is mentioned in the following document:

https://my.vertica.com/docs/7.0.x/HTML/index.htm#Authoring/GettingStartedGuide/DownloadingAndStartin...

 For more information on planning for your dedicated hardware, please visit:

https://my.vertica.com/docs/6.1.x/HardwareDocs/HP_Vertica%20Hardware%20Planning%20Guide.pdf

Thanks,
Rory