[ale] Fw: VirtualBox

[brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)]

On 12/22/2010 07:13 PM, wolf at wolfhalton.info wrote:
> How much heat can Virt-manager handle?  How many processors does it need
> to have to spin out instances?  How many processors can it reasonably
> handle?  I am specifically looking for a VM Manager that can handle half
> a terabyte of ram and over 400 gpu processors (nVidia Tesla) and maby 20
> to 40 TB of storage...
> 

You can pass through pci devices to virtual machines using libvirt and
kvm, but... Does 400 gpu procesors = 400 pci-e cards? I'm not sure how
you would fit or provide power to all that in a single box, or where
you're going to get the few hundred thousand dollars it would cost. If
you're planning a project that will cost this much, I'd call up a few
hardware vendors and red hat for answers.

You might be interested in this whitepaper. It talks about running KVM
on a box with 48 cores and 512GB of RAM.

"Scale-up Virtualization with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 on an HP
ProLiant DL785 G6 (=256 guests)"

http://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/rhel/HP-DL785-KVM-scaling-v1.pdf

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All the best,
Brian Pitts