The CANDIS Blog

I have been using VMWARE/BOCHS and UML for around 7 years now. And boy have things moved quickly! Most recently VMWARE announced their new products. ESX 3.5 is basically the same as ESX3, the main new feature that all people could use is the central patch management system. The feature that is really putting this product well into the “Enterprise” class is the SAN motion system. Think VMOTION for SAN’s. Well seeing as most SANS cost around 300,000 RMB, it must be nice to be able to have at least TWO of them, to then use this functionality.

What is a mixed bag in my mind is the new ESX3i. It will be first released in the new Dell VORSO servers, originally due to ship this month and as confirmed by my DELL Sales manager, is slipping into the new year. These servers will not need hard disks (So what about core dumps, logs and swap?) but will have embedded flash with the hypervisor installed.

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Excellent Results!

CPU

System load was DOWN. This is due to much better disk IO (reduced wait times) and as such, user processes get to breath and send stuff back to clients in a speedy fashion.

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