Hi, My bad, ESXi is indeed paravirtualized, but not still as fast as Xen. You can test the disk i/o troughput just with dd, for example:
r...@srcds-1:/root# dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/test.img bs=1M count=4096 4096+0 records in 4096+0 records out 4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 21.5771 s, 199 MB/s Gives me a hell of more disk speed than ESXi. In ESXi it was about 60MB/s. Dont know how ESXi paravirtualization is done, but Xen is a lot of faster. - Valtteri Kiviniemi Rick Payton kirjoitti: > ahh beat me to it. Linux DOES run paravirtualized under ESXi (both 3.5 > and 4.0). I ran multiple CS, CSS, TF2 and L4D servers under ESXi 3.5 on > a PowerEdge 2950 (dual quad core 2.0GHz Xeons & 16GB of ram) with NO > issues, other then a crap Hawaii internet connection :P I don't have any > numbers to back it up either, but I played the hell out of all those > games on there with clanmates and family members for over a year ... no > complaints. On the other hand, I wasn't trying to run 1000hz kernels or > anything super-high performance wise (the CSS server did run 18 bots on > one side in a seperate VM, alongside 3 L4D servers and a TF2 server in > another VM - I had to seperate the bot server, but then who normally > runs 18 bots? :P) > > My $0.02 ... too. > > -mauirixxx > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of A. > Eijkhoudt > Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 9:25 AM > To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list > Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] srcds virtualized > > Valtteri Kiviniemi wrote: >> We are running multiple TF2 servers with Xen 3.4.1 paravirtualized. >> In my opinion Xen is the best solution for gameserver virtualization >> because it is the fastest. ESXi virtuals are not paravirtualized so > they >> have slower disk i/o and network performance. They also use more > resources. > > We're running 4 SRCDS instances off a paravirtualized 2.6.29-gentoo-r5 > kernel on VMware ESX 3.5 -- works fine. You might need to upgrade to a > recent kernel to get VMI working properly though! > > You can also assign CPU cores, just like under Xen. > > Just my $0.02 ;-) > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
