Anybody familiar with VMWare tuning?
Neil Joseph Schelly
neil at jenandneil.com
Tue Jan 22 09:05:57 EST 2008
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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