Kronometrix Analytics Appliance: Xen vs ESXi
Latest Update: Tue May 5 15:54:10 EEST 2015 We heavily use Redis as part of our Kronometrix analytics software. For those which do not know what Redis is, see here . Recently we have upgraded our kernel from Redis 2.8.x branch to 3.x, latest release. And we were curious to see what sort of improvements and how latest Redis release works for our application in regard with ESXi and Xen. As already said, Kronometrix Appliance can works as a: physical appliance, operating system + analytics software on bare metal virtual appliance, running as one or many virtual machines within Xen or ESXi We are planning to check the redis-server proces utilization, extract a stack trace for the redis-server on both hypervisors. Xen Kronometrix 1.0.0 on Xen Generic X86_64 Server Ubuntu Server 12.04.5 LTS, Xen 4.2.2 amd64 1 x Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 930 @ 2.80GHz Hyperthreading: Available, ON 24 GB RAM 1 TB internal storage for dom0, 2TB NAS for domU ...