On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 03:36:23PM -0400, Jason Doyle wrote:
> Looking for some feedback from the field ....
>
> I have a customer with a deployment of a couple dual-socket Xeon servers to
> host 100 DTU's and they're looking to grow this environment to support an
> additional 350. Instead of deploying more physical servers they'd like to
> deploy SRSS on Solaris VM's (VMware ESX) and add these to the FOG. My
> questions are:
>
> 1) The customer, based on VMware's best practice guide, likes to deploy
> only 1 vCPU and only add as necessary - this is because they're primarily a
> Windows shop and for single threaded apps 1 vCPU works better than 2 vCPU. I
> would argue that Solaris and SRSS are very threaded with each kiosk session
> spawning new processes - this VM would benefit from *more* vCPU's.
> Thoughts??
Possibly true, but only measurement will show that. I'd recommend
starting with 2 and seeing, but more importantly ensure that appropriate
RAM reservations are set for this VM.
Ceri
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