[mapguide-users] MapGuide OpenSource On VM-Ware Servers

[Trevor Wekel]

Hi everyone,

A while ago I did some informal benchmarking of MapGuide 1.2 on VMware ESX Server 3.0.  I performed the testing on a machine with a current 2.3GHz quad core Intel CPU.  I also had a physical machine available with nearly identical characteristics.  This enabled me to do a direct A/B comparison.

I treated the VM like a real machine.  I enabled virtual SMP so MapGuide could use all four processors.  I also gave the VM 4GB of ram.  With this configuration, the test was CPU bound and not disk bound.

Under load, I found that the VM was 35% slower than running on physical hardware.  Not bad for a virtualized environment.

Thanks,
Trevor


-----Original Message-----
From: James Card [mailto:James.Card at calcad.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 9:18 AM
To: MapGuide Users Mail List
Subject: Re: [mapguide-users] MapGuide OpenSource On VM-Ware Servers

On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:29:06 -0800, Zac Spitzer <zac.spitzer at gmail.com>
wrote:

> saying all of that, when i have run up a VMWARE of XP with MGOS on my
> laptop it was a lot slower than running natively, but it was a laptop!
>
> On Feb 7, 2008 10:52 AM, Martin Fafard <martin.fafard at geoprojection.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It's a little bit slower for me.
>>
>> James Card a écrit :
>>
>>> VMware, compared to running the server on the bare machine. I know
>>> some of the folks here are running the MapGuide server in VMware
>>> environments -- have any of you made any comparison tests? Is more RAM
>>> required? Does speed degrade noticeably?

Thanks Martin and Zac. We have some serious performance-tuning to do and
unfortunately VMware is a piece of the puzzle. We'll do all the other
stuff first and then see if we need to abandon VMware.

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