AMD vs Intel Performance

[Adrian Harris]

Hi there. I would like to know if there is someone that has posted about the above mentioned question. We have to buy a new server for the company and i would like to go with ProxMox and not VMWare, so I would like to know which is better for Virtualization under Proxmox. Maybe some of you ProxMox Gurus can post system configs that you are using currently.

Any help and advice would be much appreciated

Thank you

 

[rugby]

Adrian, we are using one of these for our cluster:

http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2U/6027/SYS-6027TR-HTRF_.cfm

we have 4 6-core Xeons, one per board, and 32GB of ram per host to start with. These boards can accommodate up to 500GB of ram and 12 cores.

 

[Adrian Harris]

So that system has 4 separate servers in it each with its own physical CPU and RAM? how do they link up with the HDDs?
We have to get a server for Lorge-Accpac and they suggest the following:

Windows 2008 Server R2

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

Xeon Quad Core

32GB

ODBC driver for SQL Server database Raid 10 with 4 – Hard Drives 15K RPM Raid Controller Backup Hardware and Software UPS

Will i be able to run that as a VM on proxmox.

Thanks for the advice

 

[ejc317]

We have something similar. We have Dell C6100 with Xeon L55xx + 96GB RAM per node and 2 x 250GB SSD HD in RAID 1 connected to our SSD SAN. All of our gear is Intel Xeon. We have a few of the supermicro clouds as well

 

[hotwired007]

Hi there. I would like to know if there is someone that has posted about the above mentioned question. We have to buy a new server for the company and i would like to go with ProxMox and not VMWare, so I would like to know which is better for Virtualization under Proxmox. Maybe some of you ProxMox Gurus can post system configs that you are using currently.

Any help and advice would be much appreciated

Thank you

I guess ultimately it depends what you are going to be doing?

I have 2 Dell R415s with Dual 8 core 3.0GHz Opterons and 32GB and they are speedy but its the SAN that slows eveything down...

 

[rugby]

Adrian,

Each server has 1 bank of 3 drives, so each column of drives corresponds to a module. They have their own ram and cpus. The only thing that's shared is the power supplies but any 1 PSU can power all 4 machines.

 

[davlaw]

Hi there. I would like to know if there is someone that has posted about the above mentioned question. We have to buy a new server for the company and i would like to go with ProxMox and not VMWare, so I would like to know which is better for Virtualization under Proxmox. Maybe some of you ProxMox Gurus can post system configs that you are using currently.

Any help and advice would be much appreciated

Thank you

I have 3 HP Gen8s with 64 gig/dual 12 core AMD procs attached to scale computing 48 TB iscsi. They don't yet break a sweat.

I'm pretty happy. I have in the past used a mix of intel and amd. I always felt my amd boxes ran better... BYMMV.

Proxmox user for almost 2 years.

 

[spirit]

I'm using dell r815 servers, 4x12cores opterons - 256GB RAM with around 60-80 guest vm by host (with a netapp san array)