All,
I work for a company that develops and sells Windows-based software. I currently run an ESXi v4 box that is a dual quad-core Xeon with 32GB and a few TBs of DAS. It is currently running a collection of Windows Server 2003 and 2008, both 32 and 64 bit, a large number of XP VMs, and a fair number of Win 7 32 and 64 bit boxes. All VMs run continuously. The total number adds up to 47 at the moment. The system idles at about 17% CPU in the morning and that will pick up during the day sometimes peaking up near 50% for short periods. There are issues with ESXi datastore size on DAS that are pushing me in the direction of using NFS over the wire, something I would prefer to avoid.
Finally, my question: Do you think that the pure KVM config (no OpenVZ) would handle such a load? I know you need more info but I'm not looking for details, just an initial reaction.
Thanx,
Garth
I work for a company that develops and sells Windows-based software. I currently run an ESXi v4 box that is a dual quad-core Xeon with 32GB and a few TBs of DAS. It is currently running a collection of Windows Server 2003 and 2008, both 32 and 64 bit, a large number of XP VMs, and a fair number of Win 7 32 and 64 bit boxes. All VMs run continuously. The total number adds up to 47 at the moment. The system idles at about 17% CPU in the morning and that will pick up during the day sometimes peaking up near 50% for short periods. There are issues with ESXi datastore size on DAS that are pushing me in the direction of using NFS over the wire, something I would prefer to avoid.
Finally, my question: Do you think that the pure KVM config (no OpenVZ) would handle such a load? I know you need more info but I'm not looking for details, just an initial reaction.
Thanx,
Garth
