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)
>>