VMware ESX, iSCSI testing on my desktop
Posted by Planet Malaysia on November 29, 2007
In my early posted about my new toy – Intel Dual-Core 3.00GHz, 8G RAM, 250 GB HDD Precision 490 desktop in office finally utilized with high load.
Basically I have Windows Vista 64 bit Enterprise, Firefox 3 Beta 1, VMware Workstation 6, VMware ESX, Openfiler iSCSI, Fedora 8 and Windows 2003 Server running on top of the box. For the memory allocation, each OS dedicated to 512 MB and each VMware ESX dedicated to 1GB ram memory.
In my VMware Workstation 6 setup, I have Fedora 6, Openfiler, 2 Windows 2003 Server, 2 VMware ESX 3.01 servers and 3 Windows 2003 server virtual machines running on top of my VMware ESX servers.
I have 1 VMware cluster together with 2 VMware ESX host setup for the VMware vMotion, HA and DRS testing with Openfiler iSCSI. Personally, I don’t recommended use software iSCSI like Openfiler for enterprise or production use. I found it’s not that stable and I believe it’s a bug in VMware ESX, VM Center or VM infrastructure client.
The bottle neck is the CPU. Let’s said I switch ON all virtual machine at the same time, the CPU resources can easily go up to 70% – 85% and remain consistently.
Anyway, this is a damm COOL machine! I love it so much.
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Awesome toy have ah…why not try Xen on your new toy,
Wing Loon, hmmm good suggestion.
any idea where to get a full version of vmware workstation 6.5/6.0..
Please I need to setup ESX for testing purpose.
Hi Abdul Rahman, you can download free try on vmware.com website.