Hello, we are using several centos servers under Vmware. We are having more and more requests for server space for each business application (let assume that these business requests are for different type of services: databases, web apps, application servers etc. I wonder which solution is better: 1. new CentOS under vmware (having several CentOS servers under Vmware) or 2. new CentOS under KVM under existing CentOS (having a few CentOS servers with several KVMs in each) Each approach has some advantages and disadvantages. Can you share your thoughts about it ? Regards Przemyslaw Bak (przemol) ----------------------------------------- Wez udzial w konkursie i WYGRAJ! Sprawdz >> http://linkint.pl/f299e
On 05/04/2011 10:58 AM, przemolicc at poczta.fm wrote:> Hello, > > we are using several centos servers under Vmware. We are having more > and more requests for server space for each business application (let assume > that these business requests are for different type of services: > databases, web apps, application servers etc. > > I wonder which solution is better: > 1. new CentOS under vmware (having several CentOS servers under Vmware) > or > 2. new CentOS under KVM under existing CentOS (having a few CentOS servers with several KVMs in each) > Each approach has some advantages and disadvantages. > Can you share your thoughts about it ? >What vmware version do you use: server, esxi?? What type of applications do you run under these vms?? -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com
On 05/04/2011 03:58 AM, przemolicc at poczta.fm wrote:> Hello, > > we are using several centos servers under Vmware. We are having more > and more requests for server space for each business application (let assume > that these business requests are for different type of services: > databases, web apps, application servers etc. > > I wonder which solution is better: > 1. new CentOS under vmware (having several CentOS servers under Vmware) > or > 2. new CentOS under KVM under existing CentOS (having a few CentOS servers with several KVMs in each) > Each approach has some advantages and disadvantages. > Can you share your thoughts about it ?My thoughts are that KVM is part of the OS while VMWare is an addon. If KVM can meet your needs (are all the physical servers vmx|svm compatible, etc.), then I would go with KVM. It is also much easier to script the creation of KVM VMs via things like cobbler, etc. If I were doing this, I would be doing it in KVM unless there was something that made me require an external to the OS solution. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 253 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110504/acddd671/attachment.sig>