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color=#0000ff size=2>I run my game servers in both a VMware ESX and ESXi
environment. the ESXi setup is only pushing a single 14 player game server, but
I used the ESX host to push 8 Left 4 Dead servers, as well as the COD4 and about
5 other steam based servers, with nary an issue.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Rick Payton, I.T. Manager</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> "Einar S. idsų"
[mailto:einar.cod@norsk-esport.no] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 08, 2009
7:24 AM<BR><B>To:</B> cod@icculus.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [cod] Mmmm...
cores<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Do virtual servers actually work well with game-servers? We use
virtual servers for<BR>a lot of things, but for our game servers we use only
pure physical hosts. I would<BR>think that real-time properties, which are quite
important for game-servers as<BR>opposed to webservers, sql-servers and
mailservers, would be quite poor for <BR>virtualised servers.<BR><BR>Which
virtualisation solutions have proven to work for past-paced games? And
is<BR>there a certain trick to setting them up, such as binding a virtual server
to a single<BR>core?<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR>Einar<BR><BR>Dallas Crandall wrote:
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Each game server, as far as I know will only use a
single core so virtual is what this bad boy was made for.
<SPAN> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Wingdings><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Wingdings"><SPAN>J</SPAN></SPAN></FONT> This machine in
our environment running Linux game servers, we would be able to run 40-50 game
servers on this single box! Currently we run 6-10 windows servers on a single
dual core xeon w/8gigs of ram. Remember Vmware allows over commitment of
memory!!! Most others do not.<O:P></O:P></P>
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