Hi, And btw, if you dont want to use the community Xen version, you can also use XenServer which is free an like ESXi (only better ;)
http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/feature.asp?contentID=1686939 - Valtteri Kiviniemi Valtteri Kiviniemi kirjoitti: > 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
