[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMq on ESXi

Fri Nov 29 10:41:32 GMT 2013

Well, first of all lots of people are running clusters on virtual 
machines perfectly happily, so it should be possible!

If you are seeing running_partitioned_network events on your cluster, 
that's quite alarming, that would imply (assuming your network is 
reliable) that nodes are being suspended by the hypervisor for at least 
a minute or so - which sounds excessive. Unless you are suspending the 
nodes yourself (in which case I suggest you don't do that). But I've not 
seen ESX do that in my limited experience with it.

You could increase net_ticktime (http://www.rabbitmq.com/nettick.html) 
to cover this up, but it feels like a band aid at this point.

You should probably read http://www.rabbitmq.com/partitions.html if you 
haven't already done so.

Finally, you mention mirrored queues. Note that we have fixed a large 
number of bugs in the mirrored queue implementation since 2.8.2 (and 
quite a few since 3.0.1) so upgrading is likely to be a good idea.

Cheers, Simon

On 27/11/2013 20:23, zsolt.erl at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to find out if there are any recommendations for running
> RabbitMq on VMWare ESXi? (eg. clustering, queue mirroring)
>
> I have several 4 node clusters running on ESXi4/5 guests. The guests are
> Ubuntu 10.04 VMs.
> Erlang version: R15B. RabbitMq versions: 2.8.2 and 3.0.1 .
>
> The clusters seem to randomly crash every once in a while (about once
> every 2 months).
> Sometimes the whole cluster crashes, sometimes only a couple nodes and
> the others either work or become unreachable.
> Logs only show that the nodes lost connection.
> I'm running 4 node clusters with 1 disk node and about 100 queues
> mirrored across 2-3 nodes.
> The same thing was happening when I was running a cluster with 4 disk
> nodes.
>
> Are there any recommended best practices in regards to Virtual Machine
> settings, VMWare network settings or OS settings that could
> prevent these random crashes?
> Would federation be a better solution then clustering in a virtual
> environment? Or should I just run them on physical hardware?
>
>
> I realize there's not enough data here to find out what is happening
> exactly but I'm just trying to see if anybody came across similar
> problems and were able to handle it?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Zsolt
>
>
>
>
>
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