VMWare sizing

[Dennis Pfeifer]

We are moving to using VMWare and CL 5.7 on RH 5.1

I’m looking for some input on the sizing (i.e. number of CPUs, memory…) to apply to the VM.

We send outbound approximately 1 million messages a day ..

(if you need some other numbers .. just ask .. I find outbound volume a good predictor for sizing… )

Anyone using VMWare, care to share their volume and sizing?…

Thanks

Dennis

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[Max Drown (Infor)]

IBM 3650, VMWare ESX x3.5 Update 2, RedHat 5.0 Enterprise

2 CPU’s

3GB RAM

~250,000 messages per day. 5 sites.

Code:

last pid: 10411;  load avg:  2.02,  1.29,  0.94;       up 5+10:11:34                                                                    14:43:32
222 processes: 1 running, 221 sleeping
CPU states:  3.2% user,  0.0% nice,  6.8% system, 83.8% idle,  6.2% iowait
Memory: 2713M used, 131M free, 144M buffers, 862M cached
Swap: 504K used, 1984M free, 136K cached

 PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE   RES STATE   TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
3751 hci       15    0 2124K  860K sleep  40:45  1.14%  4.39% lm
5305 hci       15    0  175M   46M sleep  21:13  0.67%  3.79% hciengine
5534 hci       15    0  142M   43M sleep  17:27  0.53%  2.80% hciengine
5800 hci       15    0  152M   43M sleep  16:44  0.47%  2.00% hciengine
 361 root      10   -5    0K    0K sleep  26:34  0.52%  1.60% kjournald
2495 root      15    0  325M   43M sleep  21:25  0.35%  1.20% java
3875 hci       18    0  953M  134M sleep  17:55  0.29%  1.00% java
6055 hci       15    0  141M   42M sleep  12:32  0.35%  1.00% hciengine
15147 hci       15    0  154M   35M sleep  12:42  0.27%  0.80% hciengine
4179 hci       15    0 2124K  836K sleep  11:19  0.15%  0.20% lm
4148 hci       15    0 2128K  844K sleep  11:00  0.19%  0.20% lm
6975 hci       15    0   72M   23M sleep   5:46  0.16%  0.20% hciengine
28537 hci       15    0   69M   20M sleep   4:36  0.07%  0.20% hciengine
2296 root      15    0 9328K 1444K sleep   4:07  0.06%  0.20% nmbd
3979 hci       15    0 2128K  828K sleep   2:36  0.05%  0.20% lm

Code:

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                     18219452   7951860   9327152  47% /
/dev/sda1               101086     13638     82229  15% /boot
tmpfs                  1455924         0   1455924   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1             51605436    323588  48660444   1% /hpf
//bhcimage2/d$       5452578812 4155925748 1296653064  77% /mnt/bhcimage2

We’re moving it to it’s own “LUN” as we seemed to be having an I/O issue at times. Haven’t really got to the bottom of it yet.

-- Max Drown (Infor)

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