[CentOS] Re: Re: Not seeing all memory in CentOS 5.1 x86_64

[nate]

MHR wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:31 AM, henry ritzlmayr <centos at rc0.at> wrote:
>>
>> I evaluated VMware Server myself (v1.0.3) and at that time, Disk I/O was
>> pretty bad within a virtual machine. The only solution I found was XEN
>> with paravirtualization. Has there been any progress on that with later
>> releases?
>
> I couldn't say - I mainly use VMWare so I can run the two or three
> Window$ applications I can't get (or can't find for a good price) on
> Linux.  Performance is not really an issue, and most of the disk
> access I do is via samba to my host disks.  I avoid using the virtual
> disks as much as possible.

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.

nate