nate wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > If I was going to pay for something, I would probably get XenServer. I really liked the management utility, and I think the performance was OK, I might need to test the performance again. It's also only $1k or so for the standard edition (and have a free express edition, which only supports 4GB of ram). Russ