Recommendation for Hyervisor to host FreeBSD

[Mark Saad]

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Ivan Voras <ivoras at freebsd.org> 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 will happily host amd64 installs and i386 provider the underlying hardware supports it. The older esx 3.5 works as well on 32bit hardware but I am no longer using it. Also I use virtualbox 4 hosted on a Mac and a 9-stable amd64 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.


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