Re: [Xen-users] Xen Setup

[Steve Wray <steve.wray@xxxxxxxxx>]

Venefax wrote:
> I have both and Virtuozzo has less overhead then Xen.  It is the 
> reverse. I use XEN because I need to virtualize Windows along with 
> Linux. But rest assured, OpenVZ and Virtuozzo are one or several steps 
> ahead. The management tools are far more sophisticated in Virtuozzo and 
> the support is amazing, it cannot be compared.
Its not really fair to compare Xen and OpenVZ/Virtuozzo.

Xen is a virtualisation environment.

OpenVZ/Virtuozzo is, effectively, a chroot environment. On steroids, but 
chroot no less.
I've tried OpenVZ and I can say, hand on heart, I would not be prepared 
to use it in a production environment. Too many risks.
> *From:* xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Alan
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 06, 2008 8:52 PM
> *To:* gingell
> *Cc:* xen-users
> *Subject:* RE: [Xen-users] Xen Setup
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> Hi Rob,
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> Basically there’s 2 reasons why I’m looking at Xen:
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> 1. Cost of licencing for Virtuozzo which is based on how many CPUs etc.
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> 2. Xen has better IO performance compared to Virtuozzo. It’s been shown 
> on a few forums that Xen can have 3 times the disk IO performance.
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> Does anyone have any answers to my original questions?
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> Regards,
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> Alan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Gingell [mailto:gingell@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, 7 August 2008 5:39 AM
> To: Alan Lam
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Xen Setup
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> Alan wrote:
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> >  I am interested in deploying Xen to replace an existing Virtuozzo based
> >  virtual server solution we are currently using.
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> I'm curious about your shift from Virtuozzo: is that because you needed
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> something other than Virtuozzo does? or because Virtuozzo proved to be
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> ineffective in some way?
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> I'm asking because I'm being urged to work with Virtuozzo, and wanted to
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> know if there were some pitfalls in using it that were evident in
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> people's experiences with it.
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> Appreciate any thoughts you can share.
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