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Re: [Xen-users] How many guests

I see. Gigabit gives you about 110MB per second. What your RAID gives you is depending of your disks (sata, sas, 10k, 15k). I recently did throughput test on RAID5 and this resulted in 120MB per second on 10k sas disks. But as stated before it's really the IOPS that count.
I think you will be better of with two bonded gigabit nicd in mode0.

----- Original message -----
> Yup indeed I am.
>
> My Xen host only has space for 2 drives, so I'd need a seperate storage
> server with more slots and expose it via iSCSI or something
>
> On 06/06/10 23:12, Bart Coninckx wrote:
> >
> > I'm confused: how are you going to connect a RAID10 via a network? Are
> > you talking about a seperate storage server?
> >
> > ----- Original message -----
> > > If I were to install a RAID10 array, would it be ok if I connected
> > it to
> > > my Xen host via gigabit ethernet?
> > >
> > >
> > > On 06/06/10 22:21, Bart Coninckx wrote:
> > > > RAID1 does not perform better than a single disk. It will still
> > depend on what
> > > > those 5 to 10 VMs would do. It still might be stretching it. For
> > 10 webservers
> > > > visited by 5 users per hour: I would say no problem. For 5 heavily
> > used
> > > > database servers it will be another story.
> > > >
> > > > I guess the only real way to find out is to put your guests on
> > there and try.
> > > > If you clone them, you will know quite fast.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Sunday 06 June 2010 21:38:54 Jonathan Tripathy wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Thanks Micael,
> > > > >
> > > > > I understand what you are saying.
> > > > >
> > > > > With a small setup such as a RAID1 array, how many VMs could I
> > rent out?
> > > > >
> > > > > It doesn't matter if it's a small number, it's just to utilise the
> > > > > server a bit.
> > > > >
> > > > > Think it would cope with 5-10?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks
> > > > >
> > > > > Jonathan
> > > > >
> > > > > On 06/06/10 20:18, Michael Schmidt wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi Jonathan,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > if you plan to migrate existing physical machines to xen VMs,
> > or you
> > > > > > have some different machines for a comparison,
> > > > > > you can easy get runtime statistics and calculate the usage.
> > Look at
> > > > > > the running iostats and cpu usage.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > If you plan to rent generic VMs on this server to customers,
> > you disk
> > > > > > / raid setup will be absolutely the bottleneck.
> > > > > > A solution at this point is not easy. If you have much write
> > IOs, use
> > > > > > raid 10 with 4 to 8 disks. With many reads - raid 6 or 50 with
> > the
> > > > > > same amount of disks.
> > > > > > In each case i can suggest you 15k rpm SAS disks.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Then you can run 29 VMs. Or 60 VMs with 16GB memory and 2 CPUs.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > But note: You cannot set disk priority to the VMs. So if one
> > VM does
> > > > > > heavy disk IO, all off the other VMs slowed down.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Best Regards
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Michael Schmidt
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Am 06.06.10 20:45, schrieb Jonathan Tripathy:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Hi Michael,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Thanks for your email.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > This is just an idea that I have floating around in my head
> > that
> > > > > > > maybe I'd like to rent out some VPSs to customers, just to
> > utilise my
> > > > > > > machine which will be sitting in a co-lo nearly idle.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I'd give out VPSs with 256MB RAM and probably 5Mbps
> > connection speed.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > So the answer is, I don't know what will be running on them,
> > however
> > > > > > > I could write up an "acceptable use policy", as well as use
> > some
> > > > > > > throttling/scheduling?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Thanks
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On 06/06/10 19:39, Michael Schmidt wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Hi Jonathan,
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > the question is, what a kind of VM?
> > > > > > > > You can over-utilize a much greater machine with one VM.
> > > > > > > > Or on the other side, you can run 40 VMs on a shorter
> > machine.
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Each ressource can be a bottleneck
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > - Memory - this is realy easy to calculate: Avaiable minus
> > 768MB
> > > > > > > > (Reserved for Dom0 should be enugh in this case).
> > > > > > > > - CPU - Here we need a VM statistic
> > > > > > > > - Disk Bandwidth - Here we need a VM statistic, but in the
> > most
> > > > > > > > cases not the bottleneck
> > > > > > > > - Disk IOPS - Here we need a VM statistic, in the most
> > cases the
> > > > > > > > botelneck
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > What a kind of VMs you plane to run?
> > > > > > > > Webservers / mailservers / database-servers ...?
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Best Regards
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Michael Schmidt
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Am 06.06.10 00:54, schrieb Jonathan Tripathy:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Hi Everyone,
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > I have a Dell R210 server which has a Xeon X3430 Quad
> > Core CPU
> > > > > > > > > (2.4Ghz x 4) with 8GB of RAM. I intend to use the H200
> > controller
> > > > > > > > > in a RAID1 setup
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > How many VMs do you think I'd be able to run on this
> > machine? Is 20
> > > > > > > > > pushing it?
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > I'd say most (if not all) guests would be in PV mode.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Thanks
> > > > > > > > >
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