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vsalon
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November 29, 2011
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FMS 4.5 + Virtualization

  • November 29, 2011
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Hi,

We considering buying 2 FMSS 4.5. We have a Vmware virtual environment can run both

Linux and Windows servers.

Does FMS 4.5 officially supported in virtualization environment like Vmware ?

Thanks,

Alon

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vsalonAuthor
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December 7, 2011

Hi,

Thank you all for the help. I just want to emphasize that in adobe official license policy there is no sign or note/warrning that it's not recommended.

http://www.adobe.com/products/eula/flashmediaserver/multicorepolicy/

"Effective September 8, 2011 All editions of Flash Media Server 4.5 will be sold “per server” which will include Virtual Computers. All virtual computers will be licensed as 1 server license. If multiple virtual computers are running on a single computer, each virtual computer will be required to have a valid license.... "

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aruser
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December 7, 2011

A virtual machine as far as it thinking it is a real machine there is no difference, however it is not going to perform the same since most SAN's are not set up in RAID 10 they are RAID 50.

Now if you had a dedicated SAN that you could set up as RAID 10 losing half the drives and disk space then it may work ok, I do not see a company spending $$$ on something when a standalone server with a RAID 10 disk setup is 100 times cheaper and will not exhibit clock jitter, and/or strange behavior.

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aruser
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December 6, 2011

Unless you have a blazing fast san I would not recommend this.

This is best on a standalone server and a RAID10 disk configuration otherwise it will stumble and not be the greatest performance.

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Anonymous
December 6, 2011

Also, I seem to remember that Kevin Streeter (one of the computer scientists @ adobe) suggested that the clock jitter in a virtualized environment can cause problems with streaming. Search his name on this forum... I'm sure you'll find the thread.

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aruser
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December 6, 2011

If you have a RAM SAN, very unlikely since they run in the $250,000-$300,000 range, I tested with a Linux distro virtual machine and the performance was lousy at best.

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