Re: Suitable solution for HW

2014-03-03 Thread Daan Hoogland
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Pääkkönen Pekka pekka.paakko...@vtt.fi wrote: Or would a virtualization solution (for example Xen) be a better choice? I don't understand your question or you don't understand cloudstack, Pekka. Using cloudstack you would still need a virtualization server like

RE: Suitable solution for HW

2014-03-03 Thread Pääkkönen Pekka
: Suitable solution for HW On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Pääkkönen Pekka pekka.paakko...@vtt.fi wrote: Or would a virtualization solution (for example Xen) be a better choice? I don't understand your question or you don't understand cloudstack, Pekka. Using cloudstack you would still need

RE: Suitable solution for HW

2014-03-03 Thread Nux!
On 03.03.2014 11:22, Pääkkönen Pekka wrote: Hi Daan, Maybe I should have been clearer. I was wondering about the implications for performance. Would performance in a database clustering use case be better with plain Xen (or other virtualization solution), when compared to CloudStack with Xen?

Re: Suitable solution for HW

2014-03-03 Thread Geoff Higginbottom
Hi Daan. As Nux has already highlighted, disk IO is the critical factor for high performance database applications. Using local storage within the Hypervisor will only provide very limited IOPS, even with 15k SAS disks. We have been doing a lot of work with SolidFire storage recently. In my

RE: Suitable solution for HW

2014-03-03 Thread Pääkkönen Pekka
Hi, Yes. Thanks a lot for your answers. Regards, -Pekka -Original Message- From: Daan Hoogland [mailto:daan.hoogl...@gmail.com] Sent: 3. maaliskuuta 2014 16:15 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Re: Suitable solution for HW Well Pekka, :) Do you find an answer to your question