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RE: [Xen-users] Looking for Xen success stories in a production data cen

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Subject: RE: [Xen-users] Looking for Xen success stories in a production data center environment
From: Simon Hobson <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 20:46:19 +0100
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Joe Armstrong wrote:

As for stability, I have no idea... I have heard Xen is stable, but at this point I have no hard evidence of that - either for or against.

I've been running a few small servers on Xen for a while now - about 6 months. I've had a couple of unexplained guest failures*, but to be honest no more (probably less) than we had when they were all separate boxes. None of the servers is heavily loaded - being a DNS master, DNS resolver, low traffic MailMan list server, and a fairly low traffic 'LAMP' webserver - so I can't honestly give any indications as to performance (and all the separate boxes Xen replaced were old 'hand me downs' with varied specs).

Even the Xen host machines are hand me downs that I've got because they don't have the hardware support needed for Microsoft's virtualisation stuff.


* Guest is consuming 100% CPU but is completely unresponsive to network or xen console.

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