I played around with VMWare server 2.0 and found the ajax web server sucked all the life out of the host. That was the only thing on a fairly quick machine. Version 1 kills Version 2 performance wise. Throw in AJAX with the rest of your google search terms and read on.
-Devin On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > FFS - the OP is running a grand total of 5 OSes - 4 VMs and the host, with > nothing running in any of the VMs across 3 disks on a new server > > I can do better than that my laptop (I am writing this email whilst running > 4 MOSS servers, 1 SQL Server and a DC) on my Dell E6400 with 3 spindles. > > Seeing 15 minute lags in the VMs at a time means that something else is up. > It's not the number of disks. It be the RAID controller, or some other > driver issue. > > Cheers > Ken > > ________________________________________ > From: Charlie Kaiser [[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, 23 May 2009 5:09 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Performance problem on VMwareServer2 - gah > > You've got an inadequate disk subsystem for what you're trying to do. > Choices... > 1. Launch fewer VMs at one time. > 2. Add JBOD storage and run one VM per spindle. > 3. Add USB drives and run the VMs off of that. Not ideal, but workable. > > A Raid5 array, as Joseph pointed out, with its parity overhead, is going to > be unworkable long term. BTDT. My best solution in the past has been a > bunch > of disks, ideally mirror sets for reliability if you can swing it, with one > VM per array. > > *********************** > Charlie Kaiser > [email protected] > Kingman, AZ > *********************** > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 11:24 AM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: RE: Performance problem on VMwareServer2 - gah > > > > Single Array, RAID5, made up of 3 physical disks (thats all we have). > > > > Original Message: > > ----------------- > > From: Charlie Kaiser [email protected] > > Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 11:08:22 -0700 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: RE: Performance problem on VMwareServer2 - gah > > > > > > How are the physical drives configured? We usually put no > > more than one VM on a spindle. The conflicts between two VMs > > on one spindle produce unacceptable bottlenecks in my experience. > > > > *********************** > > Charlie Kaiser > > [email protected] > > Kingman, AZ > > *********************** > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > > > Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 10:49 AM > > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > > Subject: Performance problem on VMwareServer2 - gah > > > > > > Thought I'd ask our resident gurus... > > > > > > I have a brand new HP DL360 server. 8GB memory, 2 quads, 3 > > SAS drives > > > with a P400i/512 controller w/BBWC. > > > > > > I am running Windows 2003 R2 Enterpise on the host machine. I also > > > created > > > (4) VMs (each 75GB in size, preallocated) each with a > > Single vCPU, and > > > 2GB of memory, running Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise. > > > NOTE -- These VMs have NOTHING on them except the O/S. No > > > applications, no nothing. > > > > > > I have serious performance problems as it relates to the > > VMs becoming > > > unusable for a periond of 15 minutes or so every now and > > then.... I am > > > noticing, on the HOST, that the logical disk - % write time > > > performance counter just shoots up 100% for as much as > > 10-15 minutes > > > (see attachment > > > diskusage1.jpg) and then slowly comes down back to near zero (see > > > attachment diskusage2.jpg). The graphs show a total time > > duration of > > > 16 minutes - FYI... > > > > > > During this high spike of Disk Write % on the host, the VMs > > themselves > > > are doing NOTHING. Again, they are PLAIN OS installed with nothing > > > installed. > > > Performance monitoring on those VMs shows barely ANY > > activiate at all, > > > while the host shows 100% disk write %. So it's definitely > > the host, > > > it seems, causing the poor performance. Also, notice in Attachment > > > diskusage2.jpg the slow decline of Disk Write %... This > > ALWAYS happens > > > after a period of 100% disk write % usage.... it trails off slowly > > > like that over a 10-15 minute period before it come down to zero > > > again. > > > > > > Any idea what is causing this? I'm thinking about giving up > > and going > > > to ESXi. ?? > > > > > > picture1 - > > > http://communities.vmware.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/126 > > > 0005-23055/dis > > > kusage1.jpg?tstart=0 > > > > > > picture2- > > > http://communities.vmware.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/126 > > > 0005-23054/dis > > > kusage2.jpg?tstart=0 > > > > > > Thanks all! > > > > > > Remember the true meaning of Memorial Day! > > > JR > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > mail2web.com - Enhanced email for the mobile individual based on > > > MicrosoftR Exchange - > > http://link.mail2web.com/Personal/EnhancedEmail > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource > > > hog! ~ ~ > > > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > mail2web.com - MicrosoftR Exchange solutions from a leading provider - > > http://link.mail2web.com/Business/Exchange > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > -- Devin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
