I have a requirement come in for some data analytics and I would like to know how feasible it is to run analytics processing on virtual machines. The minimum requirement is 128GB ram and the requestor is vary about running it in VMs due to performance impact.
Has anyone had experience in running analytics workload (Kaggle, Revolution R) on VMs? Is it recommended or should we go with physical machines.
Note: There is no data available on what performance is required apart from sizing - 8 core, 128 gb.
Appreciate any and all inputs.