11 Jun
2008
11 Jun
'08
6:24 p.m.
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:20 AM, nate centos@linuxpowered.net wrote:
I came across this a couple days ago
http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/
May 22, 2008 100,000 I/O Operations Per Second, One ESX Host
Maxing out 500 15k RPM spindles with a single host. I didn't think that was even possible. Granted this is ESX and not VMware server (previously known as GSX), but ESX is pretty cheap these days, the foundation version gets you a ton of stuff minus hot migrations for $999(per 2 proc) (used to be about $3750). I think the enterprise edition (~$5k per 2 proc) is overkill for most uses.
On the day that I can look at a $1000 piece of software and think of it as pretty cheap, I will give that $1000 (or more) instead to the CentOS project.
mhr