Last week we loaded ESXi
VMware ESX Server 3i U4
Version 3.5 Update 4 | 153875 - 03/30/09
Dell PE1950
2x4x3.0 Ghz
4 GB Ram
PERC 5/i Controller
2x146 GB SAS 10K RAID1
I have been successfully using VMWare Server 1.x for 3 years now, and was quite happy when they released a free version of ESX.
We need to test Win XP IE8 and Vista IE8. Loaded the Guests without issue. Need to benchmark and test performance (disk I/O and network)
Must install VMWare Tools to overcome 10Mb/s NIC.
ReplyDeleteyesterday I loaded 2 VMs with Windows XP and IE8, today I am loading 2 more VMs with Vista and IE8. So far so good. Not fast, but Vista never was...
ReplyDeleteLoading VISTA VMs turned into a resource nightmare. I am trying to keep my disk images small, since these are only test boxes for QA and DEV IE8 testing, and I need a few of each. Creating a MSDN Vista SP1 image consumed 16GB if diskspace! Windows XP was only about 4.7GB out of 8GB. Vista required 17GB of 25GB HDD! Now if Vista was only 400% better then XP, I would support the 4 fold increase in disk space...
ReplyDeleteMy first performance tests didn't go so well on ESXi.
ReplyDeleteAs originally noted here:
http://communities.vmware.com//message/1222329#1222329
when I loaded Win2003 on the Dell PE1950, I saw 400 concurrent reads and writes per second.
My first test of a Windows XP guest on the ESXi host on that same PE1950 showed only 100 concurrent reads and writes per second. (using perfmon)
I have 4 guests on this ESXi, 2 XP and 2 Vista. I will try again...maybe using 2 or 3 hosts at the same time.
I also have a VMWare Server 1.x on Windows 2003 with 3 Windows 2003 guests on a new DL380 G5. I'll need to run the same tests there also to compare the performance.
Ok, i completed some tests with the VMWare 1.x on Windows 2003 on HP DL380 G5, with 3 Win2003 guests.
ReplyDeleteWhen copying a large 800 MB file onto itself, multiple times, I only get about 80-100 writes per second, running on 2 of the guests at the same time.
Meanwhile the Host showed a 280 writes per second...