[THIN] Re: blades & vmware
- From: "Joel Stolk" <JStolk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 08:53:14 -0500
David,
We're testing this solution right now with HS20s. The ESX overhead is
very small. About 4 GB of drive space with 192 MB RAM for the ESX host
OS. After that, I would just scale it like a regular Citrix server. I
would say you could get about 4 virtual servers per blade running dual
CPU and 4 GB RAM per HS20. That would reserve a GB of RAM per virtual
machine. You can probably get about 25-30 average users per virtual
server with that configuration, so 100-120 users per blade. These are
just estimates. I can post again when we have some hard numbers. On
non-VM blades we can get about 80-100 users per blade with 4 GB of RAM,
but a lot of disk space goes unused, and the CPUs don't ever get maxed
out. To me the VMware setup is a better solution because more
servers=more availability and more separation of applications (if you
have a lot of rogue apps). Plus you're maximizing your drive space that
would otherwise go unused. A blade/SAN solution would probably be the
best configuration, since ESX server is SAN aware. We will be testing
this configuration as well.
Joel W. Stolk
Operations Engineer
Trammell Crow Company
Dallas, TX
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Randy Wood
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 8:30 AM
To: Thin (E-mail)
Subject: [THIN] blades & vmware
Don't mean to stir up too much by my question, but...
Vmware and blades have come into the mix for me again, and I really do
not know how many metaframe servers could be achieved on a blade system.
Can some of you give me a clue as what I could get? We are looking at
IBM. Thanks
David R. Wood (Randy)
Systems Engineer
Southwest Bank of Texas
713.232.6520
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