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Virtualization of servers has become a hot topic since many server application environments do not utilize their hardware at an optimal rate. Enterprise virtualization applications have been making way for more optimal processing power distribution, and we receive requests about virtualization support more often than before.
Forsta runs SaaS services hosted with a Microsoft Gold-certified partner with a strong technology experience and an advantage in communication with third parties, so we have chosen to run our environment in a VMware Infrastructure-based environment for our own hosted Forsta installations. We have taken recommendations from our hosting provider’s dedicated virtualization team to ensure the best possible performance for our environments.
Some of our low to medium traffic sites run on virtualized database servers, but for the largest sites, the amount of I/O traffic generated by the Forsta Plus application could potentially result in overall performance degradation. Due to this we have not virtualized the database servers in those environments.
Forsta Plus supports installation in virtual infrastructures using VMware vSphere 5 and above.
Disclaimer: Limited support for virtualized servers.
As of 2022, Forsta supports the use of the Forsta Plus software on client equipment that is virtualized, subject however to the limitations set forth herein. Forsta runs virtualized database servers, hosted on dedicated hardware, for some of our low to medium traffic sites. However, our recommendation for companies wanting to run high volume / high strain environments, with high I/O requirements, is to run database servers on physical hardware, as we do ourselves for such environments. In the event you were to experience issues with the Forsta Plus software that, to Forsta’s reasonable discretion, appear to be related to the underlying virtualization infrastructure’s availability or ability to deliver sufficient performance to virtual servers, then Forsta may not be able to support you in relation to such issues unless you are able to reproduce such issues on physical hardware without VMware.