Yes, i can imagine that with such hardware, hosting 20 machines is a piece of cake. Still, the possibility of one guest pulling all resources to itself, exists. And ESX doesn't have a quota/limit feature to deal with these problems, which is why i can't recommend putting LVS on VMware.
The bonded NICs help :) Sebastian On 6/1/07, Stuart walmsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am running a LVS pair using keepalived with just over 20 mixed windows / > Linux hosts in 10 clusters all running over 3 VM ESX servers. > > Each server has 16 cores, 64 Gig of memory and multiple bonded Gig NIC's > with all the OS's living on a shared 4Gig SAN fabric. > > It performs very well and has meet all requirements in terms of both > performance and Availability and offers great flexibility. > > As is always the case with VM ware you must ensure you have enough I/O and > memory to meet the needs of all the virtual hosts or overall performance > will be miserable. > > > Stuart > > > > On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 08:17 +0300, Erol YILDIZ wrote: > >> What would be the performance of a LVS cluster with 8 machines for > >> example which run a vmware server aplication on it with many linux > >> /windows based servers installed over it? > >> > > Stuart Walmsley > Head of Technology > Vio Worldwide Limited > > > > _______________________________________________ > LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] > Send requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users > _______________________________________________ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] Send requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users
