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Re: [Xen-users] How many guests
If I were to install a RAID10 array, would it be ok if I connected it to
my Xen host via gigabit ethernet?
On 06/06/10 22:21, Bart Coninckx wrote:
RAID1 does not perform better than a single disk. It will still depend on what
those 5 to 10 VMs would do. It still might be stretching it. For 10 webservers
visited by 5 users per hour: I would say no problem. For 5 heavily used
database servers it will be another story.
I guess the only real way to find out is to put your guests on there and try.
If you clone them, you will know quite fast.
On Sunday 06 June 2010 21:38:54 Jonathan Tripathy wrote:
Thanks Micael,
I understand what you are saying.
With a small setup such as a RAID1 array, how many VMs could I rent out?
It doesn't matter if it's a small number, it's just to utilise the
server a bit.
Think it would cope with 5-10?
Thanks
Jonathan
On 06/06/10 20:18, Michael Schmidt wrote:
Hi Jonathan,
if you plan to migrate existing physical machines to xen VMs, or you
have some different machines for a comparison,
you can easy get runtime statistics and calculate the usage. Look at
the running iostats and cpu usage.
If you plan to rent generic VMs on this server to customers, you disk
/ raid setup will be absolutely the bottleneck.
A solution at this point is not easy. If you have much write IOs, use
raid 10 with 4 to 8 disks. With many reads - raid 6 or 50 with the
same amount of disks.
In each case i can suggest you 15k rpm SAS disks.
Then you can run 29 VMs. Or 60 VMs with 16GB memory and 2 CPUs.
But note: You cannot set disk priority to the VMs. So if one VM does
heavy disk IO, all off the other VMs slowed down.
Best Regards
Michael Schmidt
Am 06.06.10 20:45, schrieb Jonathan Tripathy:
Hi Michael,
Thanks for your email.
This is just an idea that I have floating around in my head that
maybe I'd like to rent out some VPSs to customers, just to utilise my
machine which will be sitting in a co-lo nearly idle.
I'd give out VPSs with 256MB RAM and probably 5Mbps connection speed.
So the answer is, I don't know what will be running on them, however
I could write up an "acceptable use policy", as well as use some
throttling/scheduling?
Thanks
On 06/06/10 19:39, Michael Schmidt wrote:
Hi Jonathan,
the question is, what a kind of VM?
You can over-utilize a much greater machine with one VM.
Or on the other side, you can run 40 VMs on a shorter machine.
Each ressource can be a bottleneck
- Memory - this is realy easy to calculate: Avaiable minus 768MB
(Reserved for Dom0 should be enugh in this case).
- CPU - Here we need a VM statistic
- Disk Bandwidth - Here we need a VM statistic, but in the most
cases not the bottleneck
- Disk IOPS - Here we need a VM statistic, in the most cases the
botelneck
What a kind of VMs you plane to run?
Webservers / mailservers / database-servers ...?
Best Regards
Michael Schmidt
Am 06.06.10 00:54, schrieb Jonathan Tripathy:
Hi Everyone,
I have a Dell R210 server which has a Xeon X3430 Quad Core CPU
(2.4Ghz x 4) with 8GB of RAM. I intend to use the H200 controller
in a RAID1 setup
How many VMs do you think I'd be able to run on this machine? Is 20
pushing it?
I'd say most (if not all) guests would be in PV mode.
Thanks
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