Hi all,
As a long-time user of FreeNAS, then Core, the advent of Scale is like a dream come true for me. Currently I am using Core as a VM on ESXi (don't worry, proper LSI hardware with passthough, host is a DL560 G8 with 2x 2690 v2, 256Gb 1866 DDR3 whilst testing), and have additional VMs on the same ESXi to provide compute capability (CFD and rendering). I have done some quick & dirty benchmarks and Scale is looking very promising;
Higher numbers in the (relative) columns mean better performance. Proxmox LXC performance is virtualy identical to natively installing solvers on Scale (which I would like to avoid for obvious reasons). So my question is - are there any plans to integrate LXC containers with the same kind of comfort as KVM VMs in Scale? This would enable me to reduce complexity of this setup both in hardware and software (ditch ESXi, simplify booting, no need for passthough, slog devices for NFS VMs etc etc).
Any pointers more than welcome!
Kai.
As a long-time user of FreeNAS, then Core, the advent of Scale is like a dream come true for me. Currently I am using Core as a VM on ESXi (don't worry, proper LSI hardware with passthough, host is a DL560 G8 with 2x 2690 v2, 256Gb 1866 DDR3 whilst testing), and have additional VMs on the same ESXi to provide compute capability (CFD and rendering). I have done some quick & dirty benchmarks and Scale is looking very promising;
mesh (s) | mesh (relative) | sim (s) | sim (relative) | |
Focal on Bare metal | 235 | 1 | 90.2 | 1 |
VM on ESXi | 245 | 0.96 | 95.4 | 0.95 |
Proxmox KVM | 313 | 0.75 | 174 | 0.52 |
Proxmox LXC | 249 | 0.94 | 95.2 | 0.95 |
Scale KVM | 362 | 0.65 | 207.5 | 0.43 |
Scale Docker | 246 | 0.96 | 103.0 | 0.88 |
Scale Native | 230 | 1.02 | 96.8 | 0.93 |
Higher numbers in the (relative) columns mean better performance. Proxmox LXC performance is virtualy identical to natively installing solvers on Scale (which I would like to avoid for obvious reasons). So my question is - are there any plans to integrate LXC containers with the same kind of comfort as KVM VMs in Scale? This would enable me to reduce complexity of this setup both in hardware and software (ditch ESXi, simplify booting, no need for passthough, slog devices for NFS VMs etc etc).
Any pointers more than welcome!
Kai.