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Thread: How Many VPS Per Server
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12-20-2006, 01:56 AM #1Disabled
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How Many VPS Per Server
Just wanted opinion on performance degradation for putting VPSs on a single HDD.
Basically we run dual HDD's with RAID 1 and install the base OS on one and the rest of the VPS on the other.
With Dual Xeons and lots of RAM these aren't issues so the main issue is disk seek time etc.
Any pointers on where to draw the line with the number of VPS / sites per physcial Sata 2 HDD?
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Mark
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12-20-2006, 02:03 AM #2Aspiring Evangelist
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So you run two sets of HDD's with a RAID1. Is this correct? The OS on one RAID1 which consists of two HDD's and then you have another RAID1 with 2 more HDD's which is where you want to install the VPS's.
Is this correct so your servers have at least 4 HDD's in this configuration?
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12-20-2006, 02:07 AM #3Disabled
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Yeah that is right we run a woodcrest with four HDDs.
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12-20-2006, 02:15 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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If you are doing that I would say go RAID-10 it will be faster and just as reliable as 2xRAID-1 arrays. Also the cost of controllers will end up about the same as well
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12-20-2006, 04:11 AM #5Web Hosting Guru
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Originally Posted by Ultima Hosts
If you use file backed virtual block devices (such is very popular with Virtuozzo) otherwise known as loop devices or file images (or sparse files) any kernel is going to run into a bit of performance issues once you reach about 20. The same holds true with Xen and VMWare.
If you use Xen / Physical backed block devices (partitions or LVM backed) , this is a non-issue.
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12-20-2006, 04:17 AM #6Disabled
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Thanks. We are using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005.
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12-20-2006, 04:18 AM #7Web Hosting Master
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Originally Posted by tinkertimRuss Foster - Industry Curmudgeon
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