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VMWARE on DL 585 SLOW

Asked by: mhamer

HI, is there any knack or thinsg you are meant to do to get this to run better?

I have vmworkstation on my laptop (4gbram)  and I have vmserver on a dl585 4xdual core procs and 24gb of ram

the lap beats the server hands down in terms of performance.

any ideas why?

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2007-10-31 at 06:21:39ID22929585
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Answers

 

by: 65tdPosted on 2007-10-31 at 17:43:40ID: 20190200

What OS is running on the DL ent or std (2003)?

 

by: mhamerPosted on 2007-11-01 at 02:16:10ID: 20191479

ENT
tried
sp1 sp2 r2

 

by: PberPosted on 2007-11-01 at 06:52:15ID: 20192819

Could be a few reasons.

What kind of processors are in the laptop?  Do they support VT?  How many cores?
Same question for the DL585.  Do they support AMD-V?

I could also imagine if you had a higher core frequency on the laptop, a single guest OS would run faster.  If you put 4+ guest OSs, the 585 should smoke the laptop.

 

by: mhamerPosted on 2007-11-01 at 07:30:30ID: 20193179

Laptop
centrino DUo 1.66ghz  nothing great

runs 6 images fine, 4 x 2003 server 2 x vista



585's  2 are 2 x quad core opteron
a
2 are 4x dual core opteron

the servers them selves seem slugish not just vmware

we have loads of dl-380s far lower spec but a lot quicker interms of using the gui, windows snap open etc

 

by: mhamerPosted on 2007-11-04 at 04:41:25ID: 20210291

.

 

by: PberPosted on 2007-11-05 at 05:35:05ID: 20215739

Seems odd, but what are your AMD processor numbers?  i.e. 8212?

 

by: mhamerPosted on 2007-11-06 at 03:08:47ID: 20222844

8220 se

 

by: vanderweePosted on 2007-11-07 at 12:21:37ID: 20235918

what configuration are the HDD's on the server?SCSI/SAS/SATA? RAID 0 or 1 or 5?
If RAID 5 do you have write caching enabled?

 

by: mhamerPosted on 2007-11-08 at 01:49:52ID: 20240003

Mirror on the OS drive and Raid 5 on the rest

cache is set to. 50% read 50% Write

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