[atlas] Atlas probe - virtual appliance?

Wed Jun 19 13:34:31 CEST 2013

On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:
>
> > Virtual firewalls work great with VMware and cost effective as well,
> > 90% cost saving
> >> But virtual appliances are generally pretty bad at network monitoring.
>
> nigel meant time-dependent measurements
>

Allow me to share some interesting links with Daniel Suchy (and the
list archive) regarding the virtualization impact on CPU, disk I/O and
time accuracy:

o Short article published at labs.ripe.net [1] not long ago around the
Atlas Anchors.
o Talk by Randy himself [2][3] on probe/measurement calibration

Regards,

[1] https://labs.ripe.net/Members/romeo_zwart/ripe-atlas-anchor-to-ripe-ncc-service-node
[2] https://ripe66.ripe.net/presentations/128-130513.tokyo-ping.pdf
[3] https://ripe66.ripe.net/archives/video/12/