[wplug-internet] Migrating WPLUG.org to KVM

John Lewis oflameo2 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 12 20:50:03 EDT 2015


KVM is why I originally chose Ramnode over Linode for my VPS systems.

No one is probably checking the site since we didn't even make quorum at
the GUM yesterday. Do it now if you are allowed to.


On 07/12/2015 08:44 PM, Joe Prostko wrote:
> Linode has allowed servers to switch from Xen to KVM for some time,
> and for any Linodes I administer, I have converted them over from Xen
> to KVM.
>
> This will likely result in about 10 minutes of downtime for a Linode
> of our size while the server is migrated, so it's not a ton of
> downtime. I figure we should do it when it's convenient, since it will
> have to be done eventually anyway as Linode will force all VMs to KVM
> over time.
>
> I did some benchmarking for various sized Linodes versus their Xen
> counterparts, and well, the KVM instances perform way better, at least
> with benchmarks like UnixBench.  For instance, I found these results
> for some limited UnixBench benchmarking I did:
>
> 4 GB Linode: 2 times higher after the switch to KVM
> 8 GB Linode: 2.2 times higher after the switch to KVM
> 16 GB Linode: 2.3 times higher after the switch to KVM
>
> Here is more information from Linode about the switch to KVM:
>
> https://www.linode.com/docs/platform/kvm
>
> Should we plan on migrating over to the KVM soon?  Like I mentioned,
> it is a pretty pain-free process other than a short amount of downtime.
>
> - joe
>
>
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