[Lxc-users] LXC vs ESX

[Ulli Horlacher]

On Mon 2011-05-23 (13:22), Ulli Horlacher wrote:
> A small network application benchmark between LXC and VMware ESX:
> 
> 
> ESX:
> 
> framstag at diaspora:~: fexsend  -i unifex /tmp/2GB.tmp .
> Server/User: http://fex.uni-stuttgart.de/framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de
> /tmp/2GB.tmp : 2048 MB in 87 s (24105 kB/s)
> 
> 
> LXC:
> 
> framstag at diaspora:~: fexsend  -i flupp /tmp/2GB.tmp .
> Server/User: http://flupp/framstag@rus.uni-stuttgart.de
> /tmp/2GB.tmp : 2048 MB in 24 s (87381 kB/s)

I have now coupled both:

The F*EX service http://fex.uni-stuttgart.de/index.html runs on Ubuntu in
LXC on ESX. The throuput is as expected the same as with Ubuntu on ESX
alone.

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