Hi, I am used to test our Proxmox VE (the OpenVZ part) using vmware workstation and on esxi. I got basically no issues, but you must be prepared for performance loss, I/O and network - especially if you stress the whole vmware system by multiple guests. I cannot provide any figures but depending on the used storage backend you will see what I mean ...
Br, martin > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Roman Haefeli > Sent: Dienstag, 13. Juli 2010 12:33 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Users] OpenVZ inside VMware? > > Hi > > Our institution forces us linux admins to get rid of all our physical hardware > machines and only wants to maintain VMware virtual machines. > Since we built our whole linux infrastructure based on OpenVZ and optimized > the maintenance of our infrastructure with a lot of OpenVZ specific scripts, > we absolutely don't want to abandon OpenVZ. > > Since the computational (and memory and I/O) overhead of OpenVZ seems > neglectible, we thought about transferring only the HNs to VMware virtual > machines, while keeping all containers running in their HNs, so that the > switch can be done with minimal effort and we are still able to make use of > the advantages of OpenVZ. > > Before doing so, we would like to hear some opinions about running OpenVZ > HNs as VMware virtual machines. Is there anything that one needs to take > care of in this particular setup? > > First tests exhibited no issues at all. Even compiling the VMwareTools kernel > modules into the openvz debian kernel was no problem and seems to work > well. > > Thanks in advance for sharing opinions. > > Roman > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected] > https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] https://openvz.org/mailman/listinfo/users
