Anybody familiar with VMWare tuning?

[Neil Joseph Schelly]

I'm not familiar with VMWare tuning at all, so perhaps I just shouldn't 
respond.  But, you didn't mention memory.  I do run a Windows guest under 
Xen, as well as a number of Linux hosts.  I find that they all run really 
well on even cheap hardware and that the processor isn't nearly as important 
as the memory.

And while a Linux virtual host can certainly do fine with 64M or 128M of 
memory, I have to give the Windows host at least half a gig to be useful. The 
Windows machines I run virtualized though are also just used for occasional 
desktop support/web browser testing/problem reproducing usage.  They are not 
servers running anything of consequence. 

I guess what I'm saying is... have you tried throwing more memory at the 
problem?
-N

On Tuesday 22 January 2008 08:52, Brian Karas wrote:
> I've got a couple of windows guests (SQL Server and IIS) running on a
> fairly beefy CentOS box (64 bit, dual quad-core, Dell 2950 I think). 
> Everything just seems way slower than it should.
>
> I don't have enough experience to really dig into it.  If anyone has any
> suggestions/tips/ideas/etc it would be much appreciated.  I'd like to
> figure out the best way to allocate resources to get a fairly decent
> response time and stability.
>
> --
> Brk
>
>
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