Anyone Actually Using Virtual Linux Servers?

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On 9/8/07, Kent Borg <kentborg-KwkGvOEf1og at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Is anyone actually using virtual Linux servers?

I built a project to run 4096 simultaneous guest machines on top of 64
physical Linux servers using VMware...

http://video.vmware.com/kickapps/service/displayMediaPlayPage.kickAction?mediaId=72491&mediaType=VIDEO&as=5054&b=

The largest bottleneck was the hard disk IO.  I would recommend that
if the servers are somewhat active, you consider not assigning more
than four guests per physical disk access (NO RAID MULTI-ACCESS, or
divide this figure).  I have a lot of experience with this, and
actually, if you had 16 physical drives in RAID0, that would be ideal!
 Then you could run 64 guests simultaneously on one host -- which is
the maximum VMware Server allows :-)
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen

-- 
This message has been scanned for viruses and
dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
believed to be clean.