[Users] OpenVZ inside VMware?

[Roman Haefeli]

Hi Chris

Thanks for your report. Actually, I was not expecting great
difficulties, but I'm very glad to hear, that there are people
successfully running such a setup.

Roman

On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 20:56 +0930, Chris Bennett wrote:
> Hi Roman,
> I've implemented OpenVZ in a VM (Centos 5 based) around 5-6 times for
> customers now.  The use cases I had were for convenience - e.g. it
> would have been a single server / VM with a number of roles installed
> on it.  I'd use a container, which gives me much greater flexibility
> to rapidly provision test instances, or expand my server footprint
> without requesting another VM (in the cases where I don't have access
> to the VM infrastructure directly).
> 
> Plus in some instances I like to create containers per role to
> minimise interference between services, and OpenVZ's small overheads
> make that very justifiable.. Doing the equivalent in VMWare or any
> other virtualisation solution makes me cringe.
> 
> My deployments have never had performance bottlenecks to worry about
> either, so I can't comment on whether you should do this for 10's of
> VZ containers - my hunch is that it'll run just fine.
> 
> Good luck, and if you discover anything useful along the way, please
> report back.
> 
> Regards,
> Chris Bennett
> cgb
> 
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