FYI, this may be helpful when configuring RAM and swap on your VMs (or even physical SRSS hosts): http://wyang0.blogspot.com/2010/01/virtual-memory-allocation.html
Sorry for the length...the short version is that setting the swap volume properly on Solaris is essential and it functions differently from other operating systems' swap. If you set it too small, you will be unable to fully utilize physical memory. William Yang > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:sunray-users- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Ceri Davies > Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 5:36 PM > To: [email protected]; SunRay-Users mailing list > Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] Sizing SRSS on VMWare ESX > > 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 > -- > That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. > -- Moliere > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
