Same thing here. With the right setup, an all-in-one system based on VMWare can be very solid and perform well. I've documented my process here: http://serverfault.com/a/398579/13325
But I'm surprised at the negative comments about VMWare in this context. I can't see how Virtual Box would run better. -- Edmund White On 11/7/12 9:45 AM, "Dan Swartzendruber" <dswa...@druber.com> wrote: >On 11/7/2012 10:02 AM, Edward Ned Harvey >(opensolarisisdeadlongliveopensolaris) wrote: >> >> I formerly did exactly the same thing. Of course performance is >>abysmal because you're booting a guest VM to share storage back to the >>host where the actual VM's run. Not to mention, there's the startup >>dependency, which is annoying to work around. But yes it works. >> >I'm curious here. Your experience is 180 degrees opposite from mine. I >run an all in one in production and I get native disk performance, and >ESXi virtual disk I/O is faster than with a physical SAN/NAS for the NFS >datastore, since the traffic never leaves the host (I get 3gb/sec or so >usable thruput.) One essential (IMO) for this is passing an HBA into >the SAN/NAS VM using vt-d technology. If you weren't doing this, I'm >not surprised the performance sucked. If you were doing this, you were >obviously doing something wrong. No offense, but quite a few people are >doing exactly what I describe and it works just fine - there IS the >startup dependency. but can live with that... >>> 1: If you where given the same hardware, what would you do? (RAID card >>>is >>> an extra EUR30 or so a month, which i don't really want to spend, but >>>could, if >>> needs be...) >>> >> I have abandoned ESXi in favor of openindiana or solaris running as the >>host, with virtualbox running the guests. I am SOOOO much happier now. >>But it takes a higher level of expertise than running ESXi, but the >>results are much better. >> >in what respect? due to the 'abysmal performance'? >_______________________________________________ >zfs-discuss mailing list >zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
