Hi,
>maybe
>using vservers instead of a fully para-virtualized Xen
Question: are you talking about "lvs" (http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/)
or about Linux-VServer
(http://linux-vserver.org/Welcome_to_Linux-VServer.org) or maybe something else?
Regards,
Rami Rosen
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We are currently use Xen on CentOS 5.1 to host several machines of
> ours (i.e. everything on that physical box is in our control).
>
> Since we decided to standardise on CentOS (it was decided for us -
> hard to find hosters who support Debian without extra hassle), which
> means that all virtual hosts run the same OS, I though that maybe
> using vservers instead of a fully para-virtualized Xen machine for
> each function would let us squeeze out that much more out of our
> hardware (memory, cpu, io).
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1. Is this correct (that vserver will run more efficiently in that
> situation)?
> 2. How does the vserver support in CentOS 5.1 compares to Xen? I mean
> - with Xen it's just a matter of installing a couple of packages and
> off you go (especially now that the learning curve is mostly behind
> me), with vserver - I can't even find a package which mentions this
> string in its name or description ("yum search vserver"). So is it
> worth the hassle?
>
> We expect to use the servers with very high IO (lots of disk access)
> and CPU utilization.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Amos
>
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