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A few days ago I posted a comparison between FreeBSD’s bhyve and VMWare ESXi 5.5. I received a lot of feedbacks from the result of our test, so we decided to investigate further with a new round of tests, in a more scientific approach.

As in previous test, we used a standard “empty” FreeBSD 10 machine + latest portsnap that we used as our main “template”. The VM was using “ahci-hd” as the storage backend and the tests were run in SSH, not local console. We always started from this template for every test and run the same test in different scenarios. The hardware was the same one as the previous tests.

Note: I didn’t write it in the past post, but our first round of test was run on a ZFS filesystem with both compression and deduplication enabled.

Continua a leggere “FreeBSD 10.0 bhyve – VMWare ESXi 5.5 comparison – part 2”

Hey, I wrote a “part 2” to this article, you may want to check it out!

Hello,

recently FreeBSD10 has come out and one of the most intresting new features was the introduction of bhyve, a “type 2 hypervisor” that allow you to easily create a Virtual Machine inside of a FreeBSD Host.

As with every new technology, it is yet very rough, but the first “driving” experience was very good. Recently we had a new project starting, some new hardware still unused and in general I’m not very fond of VMWare so we decided to do a comparison between VMWare and bhyve to understand what would be the real performance downfall of using a new technology.

Continua a leggere “FreeBSD 10.0 BHyVe – VMWare ESXi 5.5 comparison”