<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Ross Walker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rswwalker@gmail.com">rswwalker@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On Nov 3, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Les Mikesell <<a href="mailto:lesmikesell@gmail.com">lesmikesell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> Ross Walker wrote:<br>
>> On Nov 3, 2009, at 8:22 AM, Alan McKay <<a href="mailto:alan.mckay@gmail.com">alan.mckay@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>>> Hey folks,<br>
>>><br>
>>> We've got some new hardware and are trying to figure out what best<br>
>>> to<br>
>>> do with it. Either run CentOS right on the bare metal, or<br>
>>> virtualize, or several combination options. Mainly looking at :<br>
>>><br>
>>> - CentOS on bare metal<br>
>>> - CentOS on ESXi 4.0 with local disk<br>
>>> - CentOS on ESXi with 1 VM running Openfiler to serve disk to other<br>
>>> VMs<br>
>>><br>
>>> And want to benchmark these 3 scenarios<br>
>>><br>
>>> So far all we have is a dd-based disk IO benchmark.<br>
>>><br>
>>> What else can you all recommend.<br>
>>><br>
>>> BTW, we also ideally want to try each of the above with a Postgres<br>
>>> DB<br>
>>> as well (and once without)<br>
>><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You can try out stress. There is a package for it from rpmforge.</div><div><br></div><div>Matt</div><div><br></div>--<br>Mathew S. McCarrell<br>Clarkson University '10<br>
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