On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Ross Walker rswwalker@gmail.com wrote:
On Nov 3, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
Ross Walker wrote:
On Nov 3, 2009, at 8:22 AM, Alan McKay alan.mckay@gmail.com 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.
BTW, we also ideally want to try each of the above with a Postgres DB as well (and once without)
You can try out stress. There is a package for it from rpmforge.
Matt
-- Mathew S. McCarrell Clarkson University '10
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