On 03/11/2009, at 11:52 PM, Alan McKay wrote:
Hey folks,
We've got some new hardware and are trying to figure out what best to do with it. Either run CentOS right on the bare metal, or virtualize, or several combination options. Mainly looking at :
- CentOS on bare metal
- CentOS on ESXi 4.0 with local disk
- CentOS on ESXi with 1 VM running Openfiler to serve disk to other
VMs
And want to benchmark these 3 scenarios
So far all we have is a dd-based disk IO benchmark.
What else can you all recommend.
If IO testing is your primary concern then bonnie++ would be very useful to get good reports on your different configurations. It can generate nice HTML formatted reports for you as well.
Regards, Oliver
BTW, we also ideally want to try each of the above with a Postgres DB as well (and once without)
thanks, -Alan
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