On 29 Apr 2005 10:38:31 +0000, Oleg Goldshmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Muli Ben-Yehuda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What is GSX's architecture? > > GSX Server runs as an application in the host OS, ESX runs on baare > metal.
Not quite. ESX uses a highly customized RedHat distribution. While highly optimized, it is still a Linux distribution (such as IPcop or Sbox, as opposed to Network Appliance's OS) The ESX application is has several functional diffarences from the GSX application 64 CPUs (as apposed to 8 or 16 on GSX) vMotion (moving VMs between hosts on the fly, Xen also has this capability) Memory over-committing (allowing to set more memory to Guests then if physically available) All of this does not ESX would or should provide better performance or stability then GSX, in the same sense that NetApp provides better network storage then a vanilla NFS/SAMBA machine would. > > -- > Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.goldshmidt.org > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
