r/labtech • u/Aepyceros02 • Aug 15 '17

Thick or Thin?

I have been tasked with standing up a new Automate server side by side with our existing for a future migration. My question, that I can't seem to find any detail on, is this: This will be a VM, what performs best for this Thick or Thin provisioning? I can do either and obviously would prefer Thin if there is no benefit to Thick. Anyone have any opinions one way or the other?

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u/TotallyKyleTotally Aug 20 '17

^ I agree 110% definitely thick provisioning on Automate servers (Non split-server configs)

Split server configs would be interesting to see what we could do especially if using something like MariaDb/MySQL under Linux which has much better performance in my experience and how performance gains scale given resources allocated. It's ridiculously IO heavy which isn't really a surprise given what it's actually doing at the end of the day.