If anyone's interested, here's the results of my make-shift comparison. Yes, the host being benchmarked is Windows, however it shows an apples-to-apples comparison between a bare-metal install and using VMware's hypervisor (versus their software layer virtualization such as VMware Server). Many of the results are very close to each other. Some aren't.
http://oesm.org/esx -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Saint K. Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 8:11 AM To: 'Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list' Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] VMware ESX Hi, Thanks for your reply! So far I got a pretty clear picture on user experience. From what I gaher I should be very well possible to run VMware ESX in combination with gameservers. Friday my new server will get delivered so then ill able to test it myself! I'll make sure to post my gathered experience in here. Cheers, -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Miano, Steven M. Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 3:01 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] VMware ESX -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colin Silcock Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 12:38 PM To: 'Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list' Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] VMware ESX As I understand it, VMWare ESX is quite different to traditional versions of VMWare (since it's a hypervisor based model). However, I don't have much experience with it I'm afraid. My work provides Xen virtual servers, and we did have a customer running a CS:Source server on it, not sure how it performed though. If anyone has any experience running game servers on Xen I'd be interested to hear how it went. Colin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Hamstead Sent: 03 October 2008 13:37 To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] VMware ESX we tried running game servers in vmware and it was terrible. you should use a kernel level virtualizer (maybe like virtuozzo), not a whole machine virtualizer. Dean Saint K. wrote: > Hi, > > Is there anyone who has experience with running gameservers on an OS which > is installed on top of a VMware ESX install? > > If so, could you tell something about the performance (loss?) etc. > > We're thinking of installing VMware ESX on a new machine so we can run > win2k3 and Debian etch side by side as some games don't have Linux support > straight away, in that case we could fall back on windows if there is no > significant performance loss. > > > Cheers, > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > I just finished up a LAN running 6 game servers on one dual quad core xenon machine with 16gb of RAM. Using Hyper-V and having at least 20 users on (over the 6 game servers), and peaking at just over 30 users in one of the game servers the CPU usage was less then 25% (for the host machine). It's a little fickle to get Hyper-V working 100% in test environments, but once we launched the server for a LAN party it help up perfectly, and playing Team Fortress 2 and Counter-Strike: Source there were no performance losses that the users could see. The server should be attending another LAN in about 2 weeks, and I'll try to get better numbers for you guys. Hyper-V or ESXi seem like the viable solutions, and so far I would say Hyper-V on 2k8 works like a champ with the right hardware behind it. ~Steve CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, purge it and do not disseminate or copy it. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
