[ale] VMware ESX Server Alternative

[Liberie Cunha-Neto]

ESX need an SCSI HD ???? or you can install on IDE HD 


On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:18:12 -0500, Jonathan Rickman <jrickman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:43:59 -0500, Nick Travis <wormfishin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm looking to implement a VMware ESX server, but I wanted to know if
> > anyone had any other suggestions, what I need to do is run about 6-8
> > windows desktops(2000 and XP) on one server.  I'm not worried about
> > the horsepower on the server.  It's got quad 3ghz processors and 12gb
> > of ram.  Each of the virtual machines will have a good amount of
> > network traffic, but will have very little interaction with the hard
> > drives.  If the test works out it will be rolled out to 10 machines or
> > so at which point the licensing become pretty expensive.  Anyone have
> > any experience with something like this?
> 
> The only real alternative is GSX server, but having run it in
> production for a while now I would not recommend it due to occasional
> stability issues. I'm moving everything to ESX. With that kind of
> hardware, you should be able to run a dozen servers easily. The only
> thing I would suggest is adding a few NICs to the box to ensure that a
> shared NIC doesn't become a bottleneck. I have found that 3-4 virtual
> machines per Gb NIC is a good target. I wouldn't put more than 2 on a
> 100Mb NIC. If you do end up choosing GSX, turn off hyperthreading and
> use RH9 straight out of the box with no updates and the default
> kernel. That seems to be the most stable config for me. I've also
> experienced good stability with Windows 2003 as a host for GSX 2.5.2,
> but I haven't tried 3.1 on it yet and probably will not.
> 
> --
> Jonathan
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