ESX will always have better performance than GSX because ESX is tied more closesly to the linux kernel. GSX is strictly a service and doesn't tie deeply into the OS at all. Jeff On 10/28/05, Jon D <rekcahpmip@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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- > . >