[nflug] Routing Problem that I would love some input on

[David J. Andruczyk]

sorry wrong..  GSX (VMWare Server) is a user level
app, and it's guest OS's suffer rather severely
(15-50%)for I/O and cpu vs something expensive like
ESX server (an (almost) bare metal hypervisor) or Xen
(free for the express version),   I'm working with Xen
at work, and have to say it's REALLY cool,  but like
anything else, it can be a bitch  getting some guests
installed under the commercialized Xen is tricky as
they only support Redhat and centos guests, and others
are harder to get working, and unsupported.




--- Robert Wolfe <robertwolfe at localnet.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:54:51 -0400
> "Brad Bartram" <brad.bartram at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I had actually thought about that, but I had to
> rule it out because of the
> > nature of the application I'm running (i.e., very
> high load) and the
> > relatively smallish hardware I'd be running it on.
>  With just the os and the
> > app, the load would be livable, but with the added
> overhead of
> > virtualization and such, it would be a very tight
> squeeze.
> > 
> > All things considered, it's probably better that I
> broke the apps onto their
> > own dedicated hardware.
> 
> Well, you could always use a version of VMWare
> Server (GSX I believe) that does 
> not rely on a host OS and basically has (I believe)
> a bare bones version of Linux
> and a (I know that it has) hypervisor.
> 
> -- 
>      Robert Wolfe (robertwolfe at localnet.com) |
> Systems Administrator
>        LocalNet Corp | Williamsville, NY |
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-- David J. Andruczyk

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