[ngw] ESXI 3.5 vs ESXi 4.0 (multi posted)

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Greetings,
If you are worried about VMWARE perfomance on older hardware, possibly
do some testing and monitor memory, CPU and NIC utiiliztion.  Should be
present in the local VM client install.

Not sure on the novell end, (I do have a couple of OES2 in virtual,
including GW8 1000 user server) but  I have plenty of production WINDOZE
W2K8 64 bit guest VMs running on HP DL380 G5 ESX 3.5 cluster on SAN with
no major performance problems.
NIC utilization has not been an issue at my site with the onboard HP
NICs.

However, if you do have the chance, "VMWARE 4"  would be the preferred
option to move to.


Hope this helps.
Thank you

Dana 


>>> Danita Zanre <dzanre.ngwlist at gmail.com> 4/23/2010 4:42:06 PM >>>
I of course can use whatever I want because I'm not a big company, so I
use
ESXi 3.5 on a my 32 bit server, and it works very well.  On my 64bit
server,
I'm worried that ESXi 4.0 will not work, but I need 64 bit VMs (thanks
Novell <heehee>), so I'm running Server 2.0 on that for the 64 bit VMs.
 So,
my take is that unless you need to actually have 64 bit VMs for
something,
3.5 has been perfectly fine for my needs, which aren't as great as
many
large companies, but greater than most of my small company clients.

Danita


On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Joe Acquisto
<joe.acquisto at gmail.com>wrote:

> Certainly there is enough experience and options on these lists to
comment.
>
> Wondering if the "real world" performance difference, if any,
between
> ESXi 3.5 (32 bit) and 4.0 (64 bit) is worth having to go hunt up an
> "approved" 64 bit machine?
>
> Guest performance, of primary interest.
>
> I have several older servers that accept (and seem to run) 3.5, but,
> sigh, none that accept an install of 4.0.
>
> joea
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