Re: [Condor-users] Condor and VMware server, version 1 or 2, which one is better?

[Ben Burnett <burnett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Alex:

2GB should be fine; that said, I've started using 4GB on my machines
only because it seems that the VMs are a little snappier.  The extra
ram, as far as I've experienced doesn't do much to speed up the host
when running a regular work-load with no VMs, but it does seem to
improve the hosts overall responsiveness when running VMs.

Regards,
-B

> -----Original Message-----
> From: condor-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:condor-users-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alas, Alex [FEDI]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 3:04 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Condor-users] Condor and VMware server, version 1 or 2,
> which one is better?
> 
> Ben,
> Thank you for your answer. We are not going to run VM jobs. They are
> vanilla jobs to be specific and we are going to follow your suggestions
> about installing the VM machines in a separate disk and they are going
> to be running in the background as you mentioned below so we are going
> to use VMware server 2.0. Right now the systems have 2.0 GB of RAM but
> we can grow to more because these are 64 bit systems, we don't know if
> that is sufficient but it gives us an starting point, we are going to
> start testing the machines and If we notice any performance issues we
> can always through more RAM.
> Thanks again for your help,
> Alex
>