On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Ross Walker <rswwal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 3, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Ross Walker wrote: > >> On Nov 3, 2009, at 8:22 AM, Alan McKay <alan.mc...@gmail.com> 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 disk > >>> - CentOS on ESXi with 1 VM running Openfiler to serve disk to other > >>> VMs > >>> > >>> And want to benchmark these 3 scenarios > >>> > >>> So far all we have is a dd-based disk IO benchmark. > >>> > >>> What else can you all recommend. > >>> > >>> BTW, we also ideally want to try each of the above with a Postgres > >>> DB > >>> as well (and once without) > >> > You can try out stress. There is a package for it from rpmforge. Matt -- Mathew S. McCarrell Clarkson University '10 mccar...@gmail.com mccar...@clarkson.edu 1-518-314-9214
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