[THIN] Re: VMWare
- From: "Joe Shonk" <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:35:57 -0700
If all the GSX box is running is one citrix session, then it should be
running on the actually hardware itself. You maybe able to increase the
total number of connections by adding a second Citrix VM. 2 x Citrix VMs is
better than 1 Citrix VM with SMP. The vSMP module has it's place, but the
biggest draw back is 2 processors have to be available before the thread is
executed. On a 2 way machine with a few VMs, this can hurt performance.
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Jon D
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 6:05 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: VMWare
I run citrix in VMware GSX, and I have an identical physical citrix box.
Both production.
I wish I would have put it in ESX with SMP because the citrix box can only
use 1 processor which isnt good(even with GSX dual processor license).
I would say VMWare burns 20-30% of the resources(the physical can probably
handle 20-30% more connections).
The performance problems I see is the physical disk, and mainly the
processor. 1 3Ghz processor is only good for maybe 23-25 processes.
Overall I do like it though. If my manager messes up the virtual citrix
server I just revert it to the last snapshot and its fixed. If he messes up
the physical one, I've got a a solid week of redoing it ahead of me.
-Jon-
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