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From: Eric Shubert [mailto:e...@shubes.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 11:06 AM
To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com
Subject: [qmailtoaster] Re: QMT on Xen? (I hope not)
Patrick Ring wrote:
> I've heard ESXi 4 fixes some of those issues. (Must have 64bit
> hardware
> though)
>
> I run some low-end services from the ESXi 3.5 hosts, but not much
> since there isn't much available support for doing so.
>
> I do find my performance is better on ESXi than it was on VMWare
Server.
> But, I'm running on older Proliant DL360/380 G3 servers (dual xeon
> 2.8)
I would expect ESXi performance to be better than Server out of the box.
I wonder how much better though after tuning Server and the kernel a
bit.
> ESXi 3.5 is very picky about hardware.... Especially hard disk
> controllers and RAID devices.
Speaking of raid, I'm partial to software raid-1. Do you know if ESXi
supports software raid or not?
*P.R.* It would be dependant upon the controller. So far I've found
that ESXi (especially 3.5) wants almost nothing but RAID controllers
(hardware-bound not fake). ESXi 4 is supposed to be a bit more lenient
since there is a big shift on the entry-level servers to SATA, however,
if the machine is not 64bit native, it won't install.
*P.R.* With that in mind, I don't think a software RAID-1 would work
since ESXi would have to configure it from the start. I'll have to see
what happens when I put a controller into JBOD mode.
-Patrick Ring
> -Patrick Ring
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-Eric 'shubes'
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