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>>> "Randy McAnally" <rsm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2009/01/17 07:16 >>>
We use the Citrix drivers on XenServer in production and the performance is
very, very good. Equal CPU performance for single CPU, but much better than
GPLPV for multi CPU. Network and disk performance is better than GPLPV in
all cases. And most importantly, they never, ever crash.

--
Randy
www.FastServ.com

---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Dustin Henning" <Dustin.Henning@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Xen Users Mailing List'" <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:13:59 -0500
Subject: RE: [Xen-users] windows server on xen in production?

> Xen.org HVM DomUs would probably be equally production-ready
> barring Windows drivers, though, and on top of that I believe some
> users do use GPLPV drivers in production in spite of best practice
> concerns and downtime risk. I am not sure how great HVM domUs would
> be for DB service in general, though. Without drivers it would
> certainly be costly in terms of performance. With drivers, I
> believe the GPLPV drivers perform better that the Citrix ones to
> such an extent that some Citrix users have tried to use them (which
> may or may not be possible but that would have to be verified in
> this list's archives). Dustin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-users-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Randy McAnally Sent:
> Friday, January 16, 2009 09:24 To: Ma-ris Ruskulis; xen-
users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-users] windows server on xen in production?
>
> Xen and Windows is not production ready (PV drivers are still beta
> and in development). However the commerical varient Citrix
> XenServer is production ready.
>
> --
> Randy
> www.FastServ.com
>
> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: Ma-ris Ruskulis <maris@xxxxxxxx>
> To: xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:30:27 +0200
> Subject: [Xen-users] windows server on xen in production?
>
> > Hello!
> > I'm wondering about using windows 2003 for MSSQL replication. Is someone
> > using win server on xen in production? What is experience of using this?
> > Is it production ready?
> >
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