On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Gil Freund wrote: > 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.
perhaps you didn't dig into the thing - it uses the linux system as a console OS, not as a host OS. the guest machines do not run on top of this linux system at all. all the device drivers that are useable by the guest machines were modified - if you compile and load a normal driver, it will be accessible by the linux console machine, but it cannot be accessed by the guest machines. > 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. but contrariwise, ESX is supposed to give better performance for the guest machines - please check your claims before spreading this info... note: i didn't deal with GSX other then reading about it. i did, however, had the "pleasure" of trying to disect ESX for some purpose, and was quite surprised to find how it works. -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy ================================================================= 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]
