[THIN] Re: VMWare ESX testing
- From: "Steve Greenberg" <steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:53:58 -0700
> what is/are the major driving factors to use Vmware for MetaFrame?
Reducing the number of servers and Disaster recovery. The project we did
recently was to support a smallish farm that needed to be immediately
recoverable at an off site location. Since we recommended a dedicated =
data
collector, WI and multiple application servers the use of VMWare allowed =
us
to provide these dedicated roles on two pieces of hardware instead of =
five.
In addition, the VM disk images can be replicated off-site and brought =
up
very quickly in the event of the loss of the main data center
Steve=20
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On =
Behalf
Of Robert K Coffman Jr - Info From Data Corporation
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 6:39 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: VMWare ESX testing
Dennis,
Thanks for the info. I'm running (currently) four virtual machines on =
ESX,
two in test, two in production. Because VMWare does not support SMP on =
NT,
I've throttled the load balancing to roughly 3/4ths the number of users =
we
get on a single physical dual proc box. We haven't maxed the box out =
yet.
I'll let you know when we do, along with the specs and total number of =
users
we are supporting on our quad ESX box.
- Bob Coffman
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of Parker, Dennis
Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:24 AM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] VMWare ESX testing
Just thought I would share this with the list. I have been testing =
VMWare
ESX and Citrix MetaFrame.
For those that are interested, I have a Citrix server running on a =
Windows
Server 2003. Citrix has the Citrix Server Testing Kit (CSTK) that I =
have up
and running. Using this kit, I have been able to simulate connections =
to
this server.
Here are the results:
---
All references to Office Products mean Office 2000.
These tests may not exactly equate to real world work because all
connections are performing work all the time, nobody ever takes a break =
or
sits and reads the latest joke in email.
---
128M RAM - Single 3ghz processor - no hyper-threading enabled in the VM =
13
users running Excel, Word and administrative apps (Command prompt, =
terminal
services admin, task manager, etc) before they started having issues.
(RAM was the bottleneck)
512M RAM - Single 3ghz processor - no hyper-threading enabled in the VM =
23
total user connections before issues 15 users running Excel, Word and
administrative apps 8 users running Excel and Access
(Processor was the bottleneck)
512M RAM - Single 3ghz processor - hyper-threading enabled in the VM 30
total connections with no issues - probably could get more but I didn't =
have
it configured 20 users running Excel, Word and administrative apps 10 =
users
running Excel and Access
(Processor was the bottleneck)
---
For what it's worth, in our current environment, which I have not run =
these
tests, I am happy to be able to get 30 users on a NT 4.0 TSE server with
4Gig RAM and dual 1.14ghz processors.
Dennis Parker, MCSE, CCA
Senior Systems Analyst
Fiserv EFT
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