One of my colleagues, Mike, blogged this earlier today, and I thought it worth re-sharing as it's relevant to IBM BPM *and* any other WAS-based workload running on VMware, or similar.
Problem(Abstract)
Running IBM Business Process Manager in a virtual machine is supported. However, there are some additional considerations when running servers in a virtual machine (VM) environment.
Resolving the problem
When you are running a Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) application in a virtual machine (VM) there are additional considerations. These considerations are performance-related changes.
Running IBM Business Process Manager in a virtual machine is supported. However, there are some additional considerations when running servers in a virtual machine (VM) environment.
Resolving the problem
When you are running a Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) application in a virtual machine (VM) there are additional considerations. These considerations are performance-related changes.
Enjoy !
PS I've blogged about VMware and WAS before, specifically this post: -