From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 10 20:22:39 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E8351065670 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:22:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nonesuch@longcount.org) Received: from mail-lb0-f182.google.com (mail-lb0-f182.google.com [209.85.217.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D66F8FC08 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:22:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lbon10 with SMTP id n10so952133lbo.13 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:22:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :x-gm-message-state; bh=IGH+ach52bsZNu+ete0VAx+MrKvBjupTer9hVeqhiNk=; b=pRNCWC6GMrdVxG8D3ZogPeMjjSPdsMzxHNfyFUAJ+A0s6xNeKpRp75M/bp2WidvDXE RpKNyh4IXBmEpFoDUy8ej3iBRKCrAlhwnc0AcME8SCeKUl65e61O4CFTmQJA23V1ihTk FwVtBoDZSUOdnBpajOzDo/BDf2ZkrJJ5CuMJdxP27ul3cE6+QFVrkZnhpmPQYN29HIqQ v7c7ArkLpigQDl0LeiDCVcO+vUWrJcAudWMFcaTh5Sl/wpQw/h+MxpcYea2d97zOtUxo kznFGD+SVdG0zDnHMSJvRo7xxYHqkoD3FNU7jNgjeeWImjocy21oRDr3ah86wE8Cf5sA OhMA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.152.103.109 with SMTP id fv13mr46273027lab.33.1341951757884; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:22:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.32.6 with HTTP; Tue, 10 Jul 2012 13:22:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [209.66.78.50] In-Reply-To: References: <589E6EDB-9250-4AEE-9F8F-92A7386C261E@longcount.org> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:22:37 -0400 Message-ID: From: Mark Saad To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnJS6AZMTXxzHPL5mKv09rrVKOGoPVExNH2bDuNxDvpuX9RE81KaDbiR9FTjcrcRZK+3eP2 Subject: Re: Recommendation for Hyervisor to host FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:22:39 -0000 On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 05/07/2012 14:21, Mark Saad wrote: > >> I am using VMware esxi v4.01 with no issues for 6, 7, 8 and 9 . Esxi w= ill happily host amd64 installs and i386 provider the underlying hardware s= upports it. The older esx 3.5 works as well on 32bit hardware but I am no l= onger using it. Also I use virtualbox 4 hosted on a Mac and a 9-stable amd6= 4 box with little issue . > > Hello, > > Which type of workload do you run on FreeBSD under VMWare ESXi? e.g. web > server, database, e-mail...? > Ivan We mainly use it to run development and testing instances of services before re roll it out to real hardware. The majority of this would be web servers and database servers, content replication, ldap, and email . As well as some windows vm for some vendor specific specialized tasks . In all I have 95 FreeBSD VMs on 3x HP DL380G6, 2x DL 360G5 and 1x ML370G5 servers and about 120 total vm's give or take a few depending on where people are in their cycle of using a vm. --=20 mark saad | nonesuch@longcount.org