[olug] OT: Virtualization - Server Spec's

[Phil Brutsche]

That's been my experience as well.

For machine simulation-type virtualization like VMware ESX the
bottlenecks will be in this order:

Memory
Disk - capacity and I/Os
CPU

Obi-Wan wrote:
> At the hospital where I used to work, we had a farm of six or so
> production VMware ESX servers on which we ran over a hundred guests.
> RAM was *ALWAYS* the limiting factor on how many guest OSes we could
> support on a server.  I think we had 32GB of RAM on each 8-core server
> by the time I left.  CPU utilization was never an issue unless a couple
> of the guests had runaway processes.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at brutsche.us