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Re: [Xen-users] What are your bottomneck in using Xen solution?

To: howard chen <howachen@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] What are your bottomneck in using Xen solution?
From: "Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:32:08 +0700
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On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 4:45 PM, howard chen<howachen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Given that nowadays standard Dual Quad Core server is such popular,
> with Dual GB Ethernet, bundles of high capacity of SATA disks running
> as RAID 10.
>
> What are the factors that prevent you from installing additional VM on
> an existing server?
>
>
> e.g.
>
> 1. CPU
> 2. Memory
> 3. Disk I/O
> 4. Network
> 5. Else?

That depends on the type of workload you put on domU. For example, if
it were only webservers or dev system then most likely the bottleneck
would be memory or CPU. On the other hand if it were database or mail
server, most likely it's disk I/O throughput.

-- 
Fajar

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