[rhelv6-list] App install in RHEL6 KVM physical host

[thomas at redhat.com]

So, you want to install a high-impact application on the OS running on 
bare metal, and then run some lighter weight apps within virtual 
machines on the same hardware? That is easily done, but can be a bit 
cumbersome.

It might be less complex to just run all your apps on one physical 
machine and use control groups to limit the lower impact apps than to 
bring up multiple OS instances.

Thomas

On 02/23/2012 08:03 AM, hai wu wrote:
> My question was probably not clear, I was asking for app install on
> top of kvm's 'DOM0' physical (not a right word here, similar to xen
> dom0), such as cpu intensive puppet app, then in kvm guest, we could
> put lightweight things like apache, ldap servers, etc..
>
>
> On 2/23/12, Thomas Cameron<thomas.cameron at camerontech.com>  wrote:
>> On 02/23/2012 03:30 AM, hai wu wrote:
>>> This is not about RHEV, just plain KVM.
>>>
>>> Are there any concerns when installing heavy app in RHEL6 KVM physical
>>> host?
>>
>> There are considerations, of course. You can get as granular or as broad
>> with tuning as you like. You can do things like use numactl and cpu
>> pinning and control groups and sriov to really drive as much performance
>> to the VM as possible. You want to do things like use virtio instead IDE
>> for storage and network, things like that.
>>
>> Without more info about what you are going to do, it's really hard to
>> give you a real recommendation. What is the workload you're thinking of
>> virtualizing?
>>
>> I've got one customer who is running numerous Windows 2008R2 machines
>> running workloads from file and print to Exchange to Sharepoint as KVM
>> guests, and it's working just fine.
>>
>> TC
>>
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