-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colin Silcock Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 12:38 PM To: 'Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list' Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] VMware ESX
As I understand it, VMWare ESX is quite different to traditional versions of VMWare (since it's a hypervisor based model). However, I don't have much experience with it I'm afraid. My work provides Xen virtual servers, and we did have a customer running a CS:Source server on it, not sure how it performed though. If anyone has any experience running game servers on Xen I'd be interested to hear how it went. Colin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Hamstead Sent: 03 October 2008 13:37 To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] VMware ESX we tried running game servers in vmware and it was terrible. you should use a kernel level virtualizer (maybe like virtuozzo), not a whole machine virtualizer. Dean Saint K. wrote: > Hi, > > Is there anyone who has experience with running gameservers on an OS which > is installed on top of a VMware ESX install? > > If so, could you tell something about the performance (loss?) etc. > > We're thinking of installing VMware ESX on a new machine so we can run > win2k3 and Debian etch side by side as some games don't have Linux support > straight away, in that case we could fall back on windows if there is no > significant performance loss. > > > Cheers, > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > I just finished up a LAN running 6 game servers on one dual quad core xenon machine with 16gb of RAM. Using Hyper-V and having at least 20 users on (over the 6 game servers), and peaking at just over 30 users in one of the game servers the CPU usage was less then 25% (for the host machine). It's a little fickle to get Hyper-V working 100% in test environments, but once we launched the server for a LAN party it help up perfectly, and playing Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike: Source there were no performance losses that the users could see. The server should be attending another LAN in about 2 weeks, and I'll try to get better numbers for you guys. Hyper-V or ESXi seem like the viable solutions, and so far I would say Hyper-V on 2k8 works like a champ with the right hardware behind it. ~Steve CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, purge it and do not disseminate or copy it. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
