Use IDOL with Virtual Machines

Most of the considerations for using IDOL on virtual machines (VMs) are the same as for any virtual setup. In particular, you might need to consider additional factors when sizing your environment, to ensure that you provision sufficient resources for your IDOL installation.

The main considerations are:

TIP: If you are running the Content component on an under-performing storage system, you can overcome I/O limitations by allocating the VM RAM to be greater than the combined size of your Content installation and the Operating System kernel overhead. This allocation ensures that after the first read, most of the files that IDOL needs to access are available in RAM, which results in higher read throughput for queries.

This method is not unique to VMs, but IO storage is often a particular problem on VMs where the storage hardware is shared.


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