Re: [CentOS] recommend benchmarking SW

2009-11-03 Thread Mathew S. McCarrell
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Ross Walker wrote: > On Nov 3, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > > > Ross Walker wrote: > >> On Nov 3, 2009, at 8:22 AM, Alan McKay wrote: > >> > >>> Hey folks, > >>> > >>> We've got some new hardware and are trying to figure out what best > >>> to > >>> d

Re: [CentOS] recommend benchmarking SW

2009-11-03 Thread Ross Walker
On Nov 3, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Ross Walker wrote: >> On Nov 3, 2009, at 8:22 AM, Alan McKay wrote: >> >>> Hey folks, >>> >>> We've got some new hardware and are trying to figure out what best >>> to >>> do with it. Either run CentOS right on the bare metal, or >>> virtual

Re: [CentOS] recommend benchmarking SW

2009-11-03 Thread Les Mikesell
Ross Walker wrote: > On Nov 3, 2009, at 8:22 AM, Alan McKay wrote: > >> Hey folks, >> >> We've got some new hardware and are trying to figure out what best to >> do with it. Either run CentOS right on the bare metal, or >> virtualize, or several combination options. Mainly looking at : >> >>

Re: [CentOS] recommend benchmarking SW

2009-11-03 Thread Ross Walker
On Nov 3, 2009, at 8:22 AM, Alan McKay wrote: > Hey folks, > > We've got some new hardware and are trying to figure out what best to > do with it. Either run CentOS right on the bare metal, or > virtualize, or several combination options. Mainly looking at : > > - CentOS on bare metal > - Cen

Re: [CentOS] recommend benchmarking SW

2009-11-03 Thread nate
Alan McKay wrote: > Hey folks, > > We've got some new hardware and are trying to figure out what best to > do with it. Either run CentOS right on the bare metal, or > virtualize, or several combination options. Mainly looking at : > > - CentOS on bare metal > - CentOS on ESXi 4.0 with local dis

Re: [CentOS] recommend benchmarking SW

2009-11-03 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Alan McKay wrote: > Hey folks, > > We've got some new hardware and are trying to figure out what best to > do with it. Either run CentOS right on the bare metal, or > virtualize, or several combination options. Mainly looking at : > > - CentOS on bare metal > - CentOS on ESXi 4.0 with local dis

Re: [CentOS] recommend benchmarking SW

2009-11-03 Thread przemolicc
On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 09:22:57AM -0400, Alan McKay wrote: > Hey folks, > > We've got some new hardware and are trying to figure out what best to > do with it. Either run CentOS right on the bare metal, or > virtualize, or several combination options. Mainly looking at : > > - CentOS on bare

Re: [CentOS] recommend benchmarking SW

2009-11-03 Thread Ryan Cox
I'd recommend a quick read through this post: http://lethargy.org/~jesus/writes/disk-benchmarking-with-dd-dont And then browse through the docs for these tools and pick the one that suites your needs best: http://www.iozone.org/ http://sysbench.sourceforge.net/ http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/

Re: [CentOS] recommend benchmarking SW

2009-11-03 Thread Oliver Ransom
On 03/11/2009, at 11:52 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > Hey folks, > > We've got some new hardware and are trying to figure out what best to > do with it. Either run CentOS right on the bare metal, or > virtualize, or several combination options. Mainly looking at : > > - CentOS on bare metal > - Cen

[CentOS] recommend benchmarking SW

2009-11-03 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, We've got some new hardware and are trying to figure out what best to do with it. Either run CentOS right on the bare metal, or virtualize, or several combination options. Mainly looking at : - CentOS on bare metal - CentOS on ESXi 4.0 with local disk - CentOS on ESXi with 1 VM run