[ixpmanager] IXPmanager and route server

[Nick Hilliard]

Hi Ajai,

We should probably put together an architecture document for this, but in
general we would recommend:

- VMs are fine.  IXP Manager is not resource intensive and doesn't need
dedicated hardware

- there should be 2 route servers per exchange and they should each be run
on their own physical hardware.  INEX has dedicated hardware for each route
server, but we use virtualisation for management reasons.  It means we can
handle OS upgrades by building new VMs offline and then installing them in
maintenance windows, instead of doing a bare-metal operating system upgrade.

- INEX runs ixp manager on ubuntu and freebsd, but it should work on any
platform which supports LAMP.

- if you're running more than ~30 ixp participants at any particular
exchange, you should run the sflow collector box on separate hardware.  We
have noticed that the default freebsd filesystem performance is
significantly faster than default linux ext3 for handling lots of rrd files.

Nick

On 09/08/2015 15:49, Ajai Kumar wrote:
> Dear All,
> I want to explore the route server and IXP manager  at Exchange in
> India(NIXI). Currently we have 7 IX nodes.  I have following questions:
>
>  1. The OS(CentOs or Ubuntu ) and server hardware recommended for it?
>  2. Can VMs be used for this?
>  3. Should Route server(BIRD) and IXPmanger  be installed  in the same
>     server?
>
> Can some one answer for me or link the mailing list archive.Looking
> forward for your support please.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ajai Kumar
>
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