Re: [Lxc-users] LXC vs ESX

2011-06-04 Thread Ulli Horlacher
On Mon 2011-05-23 (13:22), Ulli Horlacher wrote: A small network application benchmark between LXC and VMware ESX: ESX: framstag@diaspora:~: fexsend -i unifex /tmp/2GB.tmp . Server/User: http://fex.uni-stuttgart.de/frams...@rus.uni-stuttgart.de /tmp/2GB.tmp : 2048 MB in 87 s (24105

Re: [Lxc-users] LXC vs ESX

2011-06-04 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Sat, 4 Jun 2011, Ulli Horlacher wrote: I have now coupled both: The F*EX service http://fex.uni-stuttgart.de/index.html runs on Ubuntu in LXC on ESX. The throuput is as expected the same as with Ubuntu on ESX alone. LXV vs. ESX not withstanding, it's an intersting concept... However I

Re: [Lxc-users] LXC vs ESX

2011-06-04 Thread Ulli Horlacher
On Sat 2011-06-04 (11:38), Gordon Henderson wrote: However I guess it's just for university types - those with the benefits of Gb upload speeds... The poor people without that benefit - and the majority will have sub 1Mb/sec upload speeds Many home users in Germany have upload speeds at 20

Re: [Lxc-users] LXC vs ESX

2011-06-04 Thread Gordon Henderson
On Sat, 4 Jun 2011, Ulli Horlacher wrote: On Sat 2011-06-04 (11:38), Gordon Henderson wrote: However I guess it's just for university types - those with the benefits of Gb upload speeds... The poor people without that benefit - and the majority will have sub 1Mb/sec upload speeds Many home

Re: [Lxc-users] LXC vs ESX

2011-05-24 Thread Ulli Horlacher
On Mon 2011-05-23 (19:28), Geordy wrote: Which 10 gb adapter did you use in the esx box? Onboard Intel (Fujitsu RX300 Server), but it is only 1 GB/s, I was in mistake first. i do not know this tool I know it, because I have written it :-) http://fex.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/ It does HTTP POST

[Lxc-users] LXC vs ESX

2011-05-23 Thread Ulli Horlacher
A small network application benchmark between LXC and VMware ESX: ESX: framstag@diaspora:~: fexsend -i unifex /tmp/2GB.tmp . Server/User: http://fex.uni-stuttgart.de/frams...@rus.uni-stuttgart.de /tmp/2GB.tmp : 2048 MB in 87 s (24105 kB/s) LXC: framstag@diaspora:~: fexsend -i flupp

Re: [Lxc-users] LXC vs ESX

2011-05-23 Thread Christoph Mitasch
Hello Ulli, thanks for the interesting numbers. What kind of networking did you use in LXC. Veth? Regards, Christoph On 05/23/2011 01:22 PM, Ulli Horlacher wrote: A small network application benchmark between LXC and VMware ESX: ESX: framstag@diaspora:~: fexsend -i unifex

Re: [Lxc-users] LXC vs ESX

2011-05-23 Thread Ulli Horlacher
On Mon 2011-05-23 (13:26), Christoph Mitasch wrote: What kind of networking did you use in LXC. Veth? Yes. Hardware is an ordinary Dell office PC, whereas the ESX host is a datacenter grade Fujitsu server. Price difference ca factor 1000 :-) -- Ullrich Horlacher Server- und

Re: [Lxc-users] LXC vs ESX

2011-05-23 Thread Toens Bueker
Ulli Horlacher frams...@rus.uni-stuttgart.de wrote: A small network application benchmark between LXC and VMware ESX: ESX: framstag@diaspora:~: fexsend -i unifex /tmp/2GB.tmp . Server/User: http://fex.uni-stuttgart.de/frams...@rus.uni-stuttgart.de /tmp/2GB.tmp : 2048 MB in 87 s (24105

Re: [Lxc-users] LXC vs ESX

2011-05-23 Thread Christoph Mitasch
Hi again, I was just thinking about another test case. The native network performance of the host system (not inside the container). Regards, Christoph On 05/23/2011 01:32 PM, Ulli Horlacher wrote: On Mon 2011-05-23 (13:26), Christoph Mitasch wrote: What kind of networking did you use in

Re: [Lxc-users] LXC vs ESX

2011-05-23 Thread Ulli Horlacher
On Mon 2011-05-23 (21:24), Christoph Mitasch wrote: I was just thinking about another test case. The native network performance of the host system (not inside the container). framstag@diaspora:~: fexsend -u vms2 /tmp/2GB.tmp . Server/User: http://vms2/frams...@rus.uni-stuttgart.de