[THIN] Re: vmware
- From: "Chris Lynch" <lynch00@xxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:59:25 -0800
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This discussion has come up before. Mainly with Vmware ESX 2.0. The only
limitations you would really have is the amount of VM's you want within the
host. In your case, the 6650's are more than enough hardware.
Think of Vmware as a software-based server blade. You can allocate system
resources to a group of VM's or individual VM's based on need (CPU %, RAM,
Disk I/O, etc). You can also manage all of the VM's from one central
location; VirtualCenter is the product.
I don't know of too many limitations with Vmware, other than the hardware
requirements (certain MB chipsets, NIC chipsets, SCSI adapters, RAID cards,
etc.)
I can tell you that Citrix has done quite a few tests with Vmware ESX. One
test that I know about is that they had an EMC SAN with two host machines.
On one host machine they had MF XP with FR3. They had a client machine
connect to it and begin a session. While the session was running, they used
VirtualCenter to move the VM from one host to another host. The transfer of
the VM DID NOT drop the connection back to the client. Imagine what that
could do for DR.
BTW, I have tested both Vmware ESX 2.x and Microsoft Virtual Server, and
MS's product does not even come close to what you get with ESX.
Chris
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Randy Wood
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 10:50 AM
To: Thin (E-mail)
Subject: [THIN] vmware
Importance: High
I am beginning an install of our first citrix farm, and someone has it in
their head that vmware and citrix is the only way to go. Our first proof of
concept is going to be under 100 users and I have 2 dell 6650's quad with
8GB. I also have 3 dell 6400's, quad with 8GB, for later. Our whole network
is 1600 users. I am not familiar enough with vmware to support as of yet in
my opinion. I can see after testing and finding out limitations,etc... can
anyone give me examples of success/failures, application lags? Thanks
David R. Wood (Randy)
Systems Engineer
Southwest Bank of Texas
713.232.6520
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