Anybody familiar with VMWare tuning?

[Thomas Charron]

On Jan 22, 2008 10:23 AM, Brian Karas <brk-gnhlug at karas.net> wrote:
> Thanks for all the good comments so far.  Some additional info:
> Host machine has 9GB RAM, and running Vmware Server.
> All the windows guests has the vmware tools installed and the windows
> eye-candy stuff turned off or down
> Windows swap files are set to use 512MB-1GB of disk
> SQL Server host has 2 cpus and just under 4GB RAM (32 bit)
> IIS Host has 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM
> When I say it feels slower, I mean that page loads, copying files, or just
> interacting with Remote Desktop seems to be way noticeably slow.  Not just
> like a slight lag, but it feels as if the machines are running under a 60%
> processor load kind of slow.
> Click....wait....window...opens....and....fills....in....

  How are you providing access to the internal machines?  Do they have
their own network cards, or going thru VMWare NAT?  VMWare NAT is
horribly slow and unreliable in my experience, and we now simply do
not use it.  Instead, we create our own forwarding rules and route the
data via the private network internal, but with no NAT, OR, we simply
give the machines their own IP addresses directly.

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-- Thomas