Re: ESXi/NFS performance optimization - problem solved
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 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 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
Re: ESXi/NFS performance optimization
I am using ESXi 4.1, the free version. From: Sean Dilda 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
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
