CNR 7.1 on VMware

[dscarfe]

Has anybody implemented CNR 7.1 on VMware?  We would like to install a cluster on two physical VMware boxes--DHCP HA pair, and four DNS servers across the two servers.

According to Cisco this is a supported configuration.

Any comments would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Dave

[Jason Davis]

Yes, this operates very well.

We did this for CiscoLive/Networkers Las Vegas last summer and the performance was excellent.

[dscarfe]

Thanks for the response.  Was this deployed as a production environment to run the conference or was this deployed for demo purposes?

Thanks,

Dave

[Jason Davis · Accepted solution]

It was deployed as production for the show network.  All DNS/DHCP services were hosted from a pair of UCS C-200s running VMware 4.0 and CNR 7.  We had no capacity issues with over 15,000 attendees.  You can imagine a bunch of folks coming online in the morning and before/after sessions and key notes.  The performance was great.

We trunked all VLANs into the UCS and were able to quickly accomodate new networks with new vNICs, rather than doing a bunch of network ip-helper reconfigs.