[THIN] Re: OT - Vmware ESX vs GSX
- From: "Steve Greenberg" <steveg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:06:12 -0700
Hi Adam,=20
GSX runs the Virtual machines within the context of a standard LINUX or
Windows OS. As a result, the performance of each VM is comprised to some
degree and there is contention with other standard OS and application
processes. Think of this as VMWare running as an application.
ESX runs a stripped down LINUX kernel as the OS and the Virtual Machines
talk more directly to the hardware level with far less contention for =
CPU,
I/O, etc. Think of this as VMWare running as the OS itself.
ESX is therefore "better" but also more expensive. GSX would certainly =
do a
great for most testing and development systems and this is often what it =
is
recommended for.
Regards,
Steve Greenberg
Thin Client Computing
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Subject: [THIN] OT - Vmware ESX vs GSX
A few weeks ago the was a discussion about the merits of using VMware. =
I'm
looking into it and am wondering what are major differences between ESX =
and
GSX. I'm looking at using it in a development/test environment. Which
would you recommend?
adam
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