Tobleman, Vicky wrote:
We're considering partitioning larger Intel servers using VMware and setting
up our Linux environments ... production and development. Is anyone else
doing this - have any experiences to share? Pros/Cons? And is 6 servers
per engine consolidation reasonable (i.e., 4 engines would equate to 24
machines)? Realizing that it is dependent on type of workload - file,
print, web, etc. We've got a few Linux Intel boxes and would like to avoid
the WinTel farms we've acquired.
Hmmm... if the goal is just to run Linux I would think UML or alternatives
would be more efficent. VMware is very nice, but if they're all Linux...
might as well gain back some performance (VMware is resource expensive).
Not sure if 6 per "engine" is reasonable with VMware, you'll need a LOT
of memory (which presents its own set of problems with both the Intel
platform and VMware).
Now.. if VMware supported large scale Opteron platforms!! (just dreaming at
the moment) ... might even challenge z/VM (?) (well.. not management
wise... but scalability wise).
