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VMware Server Slow After Long Periods Of Idle Time On Server 2003 Machine

Tags: VMware, Serverr, 1.0.5 build-80187
First let me describe my setup.
  AMD x2 64 bit  Proc @ 2.0 Ghz per core.
  5 GB of Ram 2 - 2 GB sticks and 2 - 512
  Host OS is Serverr 2003 Enterprise Edition
  Guest OS's are:
    1 Server 2003 Ent Edition
    2 Windows XP Pro SP3 Machines
    1 Ubuntu 8.04
    1 Vista Ultimate Machine

I use all these machines for testting.  I am working at MCSE and other certs.  I have all these machines connected to my AD domain running on the host machine.  The problem is that if I leave my PC for an extended amount of time (go to work, sleep, etc.) when i come back each guest machine runs very slow however the host seems fine.  I checked the event viewer on both the guest and host machines and did not notiice anything that seems related.  I have monitored cpu / ram / disk specs and notthing seems out of spec there either.  I have all machines setup to not swap ram and all have vmware tools installed.  If I shutdown each machine and restart vmware everything starts working fine again.  Any suggestions on this issue would be greatly appreciated.
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Question Asked By: Adam82
Solution Provided By: larstr
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Comment by Adam82
Well, I tried disabling all services that were not neccessary to make the machine run and this was no help.  I actually installed XP-64bit as my host machine just for the heck of it and I am still having the same issue.  This leads me to believe that this is either an issue with the configuration of VM machines or a limitation of my hardware, and I am leaning toward the hardware part.  If anyone else has any suggestions please let me know but I don't see anything else that this could be.
 
 
Comment by larstr
Did you try disabling power saving in the BIOS (cool'n'quiet?)?

What disk controller and raid setup? How much ram on your disk controller? As VMware will move memory to/from disk things will get slow because of this on slow disk systems, especially when running multiple guests.

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