[Lxc-users] LXC vs ESX

[Ulli Horlacher]

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)


The ESX host has about twice of native CPU and disk power than the LXC
host. ESX has 10 Gb/s, LXC has 1 GB/s. Both VMs run the same software.


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Ullrich Horlacher              Server- und Arbeitsplatzsysteme
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