On 3/15/06, Chun Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chipset ? I'm not sure tbh, its an abit board I purchased 4-5 years ago. > > The source is on a HP Netserver LH3000 (2 x P3 866Mhz, 2.25Gb RAM) with dual > 64 bit PCI bus. 3 x Intel Pro MT1000 gig nics (64bit). The disk subsystem > is 2 x megaraid scsi/sata controllers, with scsi3 and sata raid 5 arrays. > > I doubt the bottle neck is there. Although it is running vmware 2.5.1 at the > moment. The guest OS is Windows XP SP2. I guess I need to see what happens > when I run straight linux on the box.
VMWare performance regardless of whether this is ESX or not (I'm assuming ESX, not workstation or GSX) sucks. Use a physical box for this type of testing. --Bill