I would suspect you may not be looking at the correct performance statistics for Virtual Machines (based on some recent posts), but someone with more knowledge of Virtualization would have to chime in.
I seem to recall that the VT setting only needs to be enabled if you need to host 64-bit guest operating systems. If you're not currently hosting 64-bit VMs, and you have no plans to, I would at least try disabling VT and see if your server behavior changes. - Sean On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Paul Everett <[email protected]>wrote: > I setup my first VMware Server (Dell R610 dual 6-core Xeon proc’s and > 12gig Ram) using ESXi and have two virtual machines running as Terminal > Servers. I had been running 15-20 users on each vm and the host resources > had been around 3-5gig Ram and 2-4ghz of proc. > > I restarted the host and noticed in the bios that Virtual Technology was > disabled so I enabled it. > > It’s at the end of the day now and I only have 9 users between both vm’s, > but the host memory usage is at 9gigs and the proc is 522Mhz. > > This is awfully high mem usage for not having much of a load. > > I’m wondering if changing the bios setting after creating the VM’s was a > mistake. Come morning I’m going to have 40 users hitting those machines. > > Any advise would be appreciated. > > > > Paul > > > > *"Lee Mental Health Center, Inc. providing services through Ruth Cooper > Center for Behavioral Health Care and VISTA Behavioral Crisis Services. > Visit our website at **www.leementalhealth.org** to learn more."*** > > * *Confidentiality Notice: This email message, including any attachments, > is for the sole use of the intended recipients(s) and may contain > confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, > disclosure, or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended > recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies > of the original message, including attachments. > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
