[THIN] Re: VMWare

  • From: Jeff Pitsch <jepitsch@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:29:09 -0400

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-
>     .
>

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