Hi. Thanks for the reply, i could really use that. I will do some more research for this, and if its affordable, ill go for it. If not, i will keep with my 1U/2U rackservers. At my primary work, we do have a big IBM bladecenter, i may ask my boss about the power consumption
Thanks again. - Christoffer On Feb 22, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Matt Stanton wrote: > Obviously, virtualization does cause you to lose a small amount of > hardware power to the extra operating system overhead of vistualizing > many machines on one physical server. What you can gain in reliability > may make it worth it, though. > > Basically, you could guarantee that any 'dedicated server' is available > much more reliably. If you connect your bladecenter to a SAN of some > sort, and are able to intelligently distribute VMs over the blades, then > if a piece of physical hardware goes down, the VM can be automatically > booted on hardware that is running properly, with very little data loss > because of I/O that was interrupted by the hardware issue. Since all > the data from all the servers is stored on the SAN, the data is somewhat > shielded from hardware failure. > > There are a few virtual machine platforms that will allow you to > accomplish this, including, I believe, VMWare ESXi (I think they changed > the name of this recently) or Xen... You'll have to do your own > research into these if no one else replies, since I have absolutely no > experience with virtualization. You will also probably have to expect > that you will be spending a huge amount of money building a SAN that is > both fast and reliable. If you run the datacenter that the servers are > hosted from, then you could also expect better cooling and power usage > efficiency by going this direction, and if not, you will at least be > using less rack space. A bladecenter will require a lot more power per > rack than a rack full of 1U/2U servers, so you may have to pay extra per > rack for the extra amperage you'll need. > > On 2/22/2010 1:29 AM, Christoffer Pedersen wrote: >> Hi everyone. >> >> Im looking to build up a new farm of servers for my company. We are >> currently using 1U and 2U servers for our hosting, but i have been >> thinking of, if it was better to build the whole stuff in >> bladecenters, and virtualize. I just want to know if this is any good? >> I have never tried to host srcds on virtual machines, so i would be >> happy if you could help me here :) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
