Anyone ever run NS2 successfully in ESXi

fireshroom

I am getting a new server in for my colocation.
I am upgrading to the following spec
2x SIX CORE X5650 2.67GHz
32GB DDR3
4x 160GB SSD
2x 500GB 15k

I was thinking on running ESXi on this server and breaking it off to smaller boxes. However due to the nature of NS2 i am considering doing a 2012 r2 box and then simply segmenting off smaller portions directly from windows usings Hyper-V for smaller games that need to be managed by others (not NS2).

I have a very strong preference for using VMWare since I use it extensively professionally.

Anyone have success running NS2 virutrilized?

ATF

3.4GHz clock speed struggles to drive a 20 slot server.
What do you plan to run with that considering you actually manage to get it to work? :-O

fireshroom

May I ask what processor you're running exactly? I do not plan on driving a 20 slot server.

ignoring my spec, has anyone run NS2 virtualized?

ATF

It's consumer grade hardware with a sandy bridge cpu oc'ed to 5GHz and fancy oc'ed ram.

Somewhere on this forum someone mentioned trying depite it not being possible and basically it was unusable. Too slow.

profall

ATF wrote: »

3.4GHz clock speed struggles to drive a 20 slot server.
What do you plan to run with that considering you actually manage to get it to work? :-O

I would disagree, a lot of admins are basing that off of 2+ year old "data" (forum posts about the issue) and older processors. However, yes the thread author here needs a more modern processor if he wants to have a more stable server.

My E3-1230v3 can drive a full 24 slot server all day, every day with no issues.