On 03/11/2009, at 11:52 PM, Alan McKay 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. If IO testing is your primary concern then bonnie++ would be very useful to get good reports on your different configurations. It can generate nice HTML formatted reports for you as well. Regards, Oliver > > BTW, we also ideally want to try each of the above with a Postgres DB > as well (and once without) > > thanks, > -Alan > > -- > “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” > - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos