This has been a great thread. Thanks for the update Kurt.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Kurt Buff <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > On Saturday in the early morning, I performed a V2V of the VM, moving > it from an ESX 3.5 box to an ESXi 4.1 box. After that was done, I > manually started the backups, and they all finished by Sunday at > 15:00. That's a quarter of the time that it has been taking recently - > probably a bit faster than before it had *really* started slowing down > a few months ago. > > > There are several factors at play here, so I hesitate to give too much > credit to any one thing, but I wanted to note a few things that I > think are interesting: > > 1) The V2V involved a conversion change of the VM from a type 4 to a type > 7 VM. > > 2) At startup of the VM after the V2V, I found that it had 4 phantom > NICs - 2 Intel E1000s from when it had been P2V'ed, and 2 VMWare NICs > from the V2V. I deleted them, using techniques learned while paying > attention on this list (THANK YOU, David, Anders, Mike, Steven, Ben, > Jim, et al - I kept the thread from 2012-01-02 titled "Neat tip of the > week"). > > 3) As noted already, the host went from ESX 3.5 to ESXi 4.1 > > 4) The two hosts have what I would judge (with a SWAG) to be roughly > VM load, modulo the file server itself > > 5) The two hosts have the same amount of ram (16gb), but the ESX 3.5 > box is dual proc/dual core E5405s (2GHz), and the ESXi 4.1 box is a > single quad-core proc (X3470 @3GHz). > > 6) The ESX 3.5 boxes NICs are not optimally configured, which I > discovered after digging down on the box during the V2V process - > essentially the 4 NICs are grossly misallocated, and I'll need to > correct that at some point. The ESXi 4.1 box has 6 NICs, and their > configuration is *much* better. > > Lastly, I started a perfmon session against the file server before > starting the backups, and have set it to run for 4 days. I'll be > looking at it when it stops on Tuesday, and will let folks know what I > see. However, the results so far are so stellar that I expect to find > nothing out of the ordinary. > > I do expect to transition file services to a new Win2k8 R2 box in the > medium term, but this takes a great big load off my mind. > > Kurt > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
