[CentOS] VMWare GSX Server and CentOS

Thu Jan 11 02:13:06 UTC 2007
Joshua Gimer <jgimer at gmail.com>

Has anyone had experience (good or bad) with VMWare GSX Server running
CentOS as a VM under high load?

Here is the situation. We are planning on rolling out some new boxes to
replace an existing box. Currently this box (Sun V860) is running web
services, database services, mail for students, and is an instructional box
for compiling code, and web scripting among other things.

We are planning on doing one of two things, either using VMWare and
splitting up the services or using Solaris Zones. The box(s) has to be able
to access data stored on the SAN (Fiber Channel HBA's). The boxes(VM's), or
Zones would be split up accordingly:

Database box: Oracle, Postgres, and  MySQL
Mail: Sendmail, POPS, and IMAPS (roughly 25,000 mailboxes)
Web: Apache, PHP, mod_ssl
Interactive Logins: Compilers and such.

Any information about any experiences with VMWare and CentOS, under similar
load would be helpful. I will probably make this same post on the Sun
Solaris Mailing List, and VMWare's forums. Thanks in advance!

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Thx
Joshua Gimer
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