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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:58:27 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@lsi.com>
To: "McNeal, Rick" <Rick.McNeal@lsi.com>
Subject: Re: HVM or Para-virtualization
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I don't want to use any model of virtualization ~:^)

Onstor's (nee LSI) virtual server technology is what I call 'perfect'
-- it has all the functionality that makes users tingle, with none of
the annoying overhead.  A couple of us here like to call it
"application level virtual server" similar to, say, apache virtual
server technology in terms of overhead.  But really it's just virtual
server, not VM.  It's being forced on us in Orion for ... well, I can
only speculate why.  Suffice it to say that it is a severe Occam's
violation.

The plan of record for Orion is HVM 'cuz they are using Intel i7
processors.  Power/performance figures clearly say Opteron, but who
cares about that sort of thing?  Oh yeah, the SBB platform (PC
shoe-horned into a 1/2 ATX mobo) has severe power restrictions.

It's 1.30, and I just got back from Wichita an hour ago.  I rant.

Cheers,

a

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:33:38 -0700 "McNeal, Rick" <Rick.McNeal@lsi.com>
wrote:

> Have you given any thought to which model of virtualization you'll
> want to use? ----
> Rick McNeal
> rick.mcneal@lsi.com
> 
> "It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the
> strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them
> better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena;
> whose face is marred by dust and seat and blood; who strives
> valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the
> great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a
> worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high
> achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while
> daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and
> timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." -- Theodore
> Roosevelt
> 
> 
> 
