Hi, I find that vmhost profile 'VMware ESX - local & network storage' is the solution I am looking.
After set to that profile, .vmx (.vswp and .REDO as well) is created on the local store, and referencing the image (.vmdk) located on nfs-datastore. Thanks, John Ma Marist College From: John Ma <john...@marist.edu> To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Cc: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Date: 02/15/2011 09:30 AM Subject: Re: ESXi/NFS performance optimization I am using ESXi 4.1, the free version. From: Sean Dilda <s...@duke.edu> To: vcl-user@incubator.apache.org Date: 02/14/2011 08:36 PM Subject: Re: ESXi/NFS performance optimization Which of the VMware/ESXi provisioning modules are you using? On 2/14/11 5:22 PM, John Ma wrote: > Hi community, > > I have a VCL2.2 setup within a blade center, one blade (with more > storage) is dedicated as NFS server and the rest 13 will be ESXi hosts. > The blades are connected by BC's internal 1 Gbps ethernet. > > I already start to feel the performance pinch when only about five/six > VM running. I think the NFS server is the bottleneck. > > Here is my question: Is there a way to make the VM save the swap and > delta (.REDO) file on the ESXi's local datastore, so that the NFS server > is only accessed for reading the captured image? > Thanks, > John Ma > Sys Admin > Marist College
