Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread John Nielsen
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 single

Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
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 memory =

RE: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread Dean Weimer
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 the sites

Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Polyack
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

Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread Richard Mahlerwein
From: John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net Subject: Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca Date: Friday, July 24, 2009, 10:22 AM On Thursday 23 July 2009 19:44:15 Steve Bertrand wrote: This message has a foot that has

Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
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

RE: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread Richard Mahlerwein
From: Dean Weimer dwei...@orscheln.com 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 [snip] servers while running between datacenters.  Also keep in mind that as of vSphere 4 (We