I guess what I'm looking for is the overhead per resource between different
virtualization technologies

Overhead:     RHEL-Xen    ESX
CPU
RAM
Disk IO
Net IO

For example, RAM IO had a lot of overhead historically, however newer VT-d
chips are supposed to help with that. The problem is how "much" will it
help!

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Zavodsky, Daniel (GE Money) <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  I don't think the VMware architecture is better than PV Xen in terms of
> performance for Linux.
> In PV Xen, you get no CPU overhead and I/O amounts to exchanging memory
> pages between domains. You can't really make this more effective on x86
> hardware (including x86_64) IMHO. Besides, by using RHEL virtualisation, you
> save money on licenses for the operating system as well.
>
> Regards,
>     Daniel
>
>
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> *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Ahmed Kamal
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:19 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [rhelv5-list] ESXi vs Xen
>
>  I understand they're stripping the HA and live migration parts. But in
> terms of raw CPU and IO performance, is it much better than Xen ?
>
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Jussi Silvennoinen <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>  > Hi,
>> > Since VMware just released ESXi as a free download (not open-source
>> though),
>> > I was wondering if any of you guys had done a study on the performance
>> of
>> > ESXi vs Xen ? Of course I could locate lots of marketing bable how each
>> > product is claiming to have the best "architecture" and all .. but I'm
>> > looking for a real opinion
>>
>> Do look more thoroughly what they actually are making free. Might not be
>> enough for your use.
>>
>> --
>>
>>  Jussi
>>
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