> From: Dean Weimer
> Subject: RE: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Cc: st...@ibctech.ca
> Date: Friday, July 24, 2009, 10:49 AM
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> servers while running between datacenters. Also keep
> in mind that as of vSphere 4 (We will
Richard Mahlerwein wrote:
> If I recall correctly from ESX (well, VI) training*, there may be a minor
> scheduling issue affecting things here. If you set up the VM with 4
> processors, ESX schedules time on the CPU only when there's 4 things to
> execute (well, there's another time period it
> From: John Nielsen
> Subject: Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest
> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Cc: "Steve Bertrand"
> Date: Friday, July 24, 2009, 10:22 AM
> On Thursday 23 July 2009 19:44:15
> Steve Bertrand wrote:
> > This message has a foo
John Nielsen wrote:
On Thursday 23 July 2009 19:44:15 Steve Bertrand wrote:
I'd appreciate any feedback on tweaks that I can make (either to VMWare,
or FreeBSD itself) to make the virtualized environment much more efficient.
See above about storage. Similar questions come up periodical
> This message has a foot that has nearly touched down over the OT
> borderline.
>
> We received an HP Proliant DL360G5 collocation box yesterday that has
> two processors, and 8GB of memory.
>
> All the client wants to use this box for is a single instance of
> Windows
> web hosting. Knowing th
John Nielsen wrote:
> On Thursday 23 July 2009 19:44:15 Steve Bertrand wrote:
>> My problem is performance. I'm only willing to make this box virtual if
>> I can keep the abstraction performance loss to <25% (my ultimate goal
>> would be 15%).
>> usable memory = 8575160320 (8177 MB)
>> avail memo
On Thursday 23 July 2009 19:44:15 Steve Bertrand wrote:
> This message has a foot that has nearly touched down over the OT
> borderline.
>
> We received an HP Proliant DL360G5 collocation box yesterday that has
> two processors, and 8GB of memory.
>
> All the client wants to use this box for is a s
