[THIN] Re: VMWare ESX testing
- From: "David Nelson" <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 08:32:47 -0700
I'm confused and don't think I'm reading this right...
Are you saying that Wintel boxes running in a virtual machine cannot do
multicpu??
Thanks!
-- Dave
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> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:39 AM
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> Subject: [THIN] Re: VMWare ESX testing
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> Dennis,
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> 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.
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> - Bob Coffman
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> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 9:24 AM
> To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: [THIN] VMWare ESX testing
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> Just thought I would share this with the list. I have been testing
VMWare
> ESX and Citrix MetaFrame.
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> 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.
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> Here are the results:
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> ---
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> All references to Office Products mean Office 2000.
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> 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.
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> ---
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> 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.
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> (RAM was the bottleneck)
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> 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
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> (Processor was the bottleneck)
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> 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
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> (Processor was the bottleneck)
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> ---
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> 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.
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> Dennis Parker, MCSE, CCA
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> Fiserv EFT
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