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<div>Hi All,</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>I should have asked this a long time ago regarding performance... . So the classic storage solution (AFAIK) for a spatial database is RAID 10 for maximum read and write speed. I have a RAID
10 running under a virtualization layer (VMWare in this case) and my sustained read speeds are in the 1Gbps range. The hardware is oldish, but they are 10k SAS drives, so I would expect something a bit faster.</div>
<div> To the question-- I know virtualization makes a (not-so-good) difference in performance running spatial databases on e.g. Amazon EC2 instances. I assume this penalty is paid even for dedicated private clouds. What is the consensus/experience
with virtualization? For my next machine, should I keep it to bare metal for the PostGIS portion?</div>
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<div>Thanks in advance,</div>
<div>Best,</div>
<div>Steve</div>
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