While I hardly do anything really intense, on one host I run separate VM's for:
Microsoft Search Server w/ SQL Server 2005 (off topic: this product is GREAT) Symantec Endpoint Protection (off topic: this product SUCKS - we're moving to NOD32 soon) Exchange 2003 Realtime backup server 1 of 2 Active Directory servers Ok, the AD server doesn't really count but it's just one more thing on there. There's no way I could've ran all this on the same box under vmware server. /me pets his esxi boxes. Again, srcds/hlds runs awesome in an esx/esxi vm, at least under linux. I've yet to run it under Windows. OT: re-arrange ESXi and you get .. SEXi ... Which it is. -mauirixxx -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Chad Austin Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 1:05 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] VMware Advise I managed to get it set up under ESXI and while running an application on another VM that previously severly degraded the game servers, there is no longer any negative affect. The servers run great. Karl Weckstrom wrote: > [Snip] > > PS: Karl, I actually found your instructions on setting up ESXi with > FreeNAS and iSCSI last week when I tackled that very subject here at > work - it was a very interesting read. I really think you can expand > on it that though, if you ever get time :P > > [/Snip] > > Mauirixxx, > > Sorry, I missed this the first time around until someone else asked me about FreeNAS/ESX/ESXi and iSCSI and mentioned your post. > > Anyway, sure - i'm always down for nerdspeak, Grab me via email or via IM sometime... But for what it's worth, FreeNAS is a dog compared to OpenFiler for Cheap iSCSI :) Our entire infrastructure at TrashedGamers.com is built on ESXI & VI3, and we can do pretty much everything with openfiler twice as fast than with FreeNAS (even the exotic stuff like vmotion/storage vmotion). > > The only reason I kept plugging away at FreeNAS and ESXI was because everywhere I read, people said it couldn't be done because of how it was implemented in bsd. While i'm an aging Unix guy at heart, there's no question that Openfiler (which is based on rpath linux) is way faster. > > As for anyone else on this list, if you've ever considered doing a > full bare-metal esxi + iscsi implementation , I'll be more than happy > to help anyone out. It's pretty amazing how much stuff you can do with > the lowly q6600 CPU :) > > -Karl > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
