VM Server Guest really high CPU constant P2V Server 2003 TS
We have a windows server 2008 64bit OS with 2 dual core procs and 12gb's ram running 3 vms
2 are windows server 2003 (1 was created from scratch, the other was a P2V) and a windows xp pro box.
The VM that we P2V'd is suffering badly from really high cpu usage. It is configured to use 1 cpu, 4gbs of RAM and also has VMTools installed. We originally had this on a different host that was also configured as a file server and was hosting 300+GB of data to the network. Thinking this was a disc I/O issue i moved the VM to a different host with no Host functions (the specs above)
problem is ever since the P2V the CPU usage has been 95+ % all the time while users are logged in to it. (5-8 on any given day) at night its fine. The programs run on it are basic apps such as Microsoft Office, Outlook, a VNC tool for supporting our end users, and a few programming compilers nothing too heavy.
Even opening windows explorer causes a spike to 60%
Can anyone help me, my employees are about ready to lynch me, and worst part is i walked into this mess, just started here.
Thanks in advance
2 are windows server 2003 (1 was created from scratch, the other was a P2V) and a windows xp pro box.
The VM that we P2V'd is suffering badly from really high cpu usage. It is configured to use 1 cpu, 4gbs of RAM and also has VMTools installed. We originally had this on a different host that was also configured as a file server and was hosting 300+GB of data to the network. Thinking this was a disc I/O issue i moved the VM to a different host with no Host functions (the specs above)
problem is ever since the P2V the CPU usage has been 95+ % all the time while users are logged in to it. (5-8 on any given day) at night its fine. The programs run on it are basic apps such as Microsoft Office, Outlook, a VNC tool for supporting our end users, and a few programming compilers nothing too heavy.
Even opening windows explorer causes a spike to 60%
Can anyone help me, my employees are about ready to lynch me, and worst part is i walked into this mess, just started here.
Thanks in advance
Did you clean up all of the vendor specific tools that were installed on the server prior to the p2v. For example if it's a HP server you need to remove insight manager. HP specific device drivers etc. Also make sure that any serial devices are removed.
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There are no vendor tools i can find. And i don't see any serial devices in the device manager. The only really odd thing i see in the device manager is 33 PCI standard PCI to PCI Bridge's
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Im pretty sure it was a single core pc running it on the physical, small chance it was dual core.....i guess i didn't do the conversion. The VM is configured through VM Server for 1 cpu. would changing this to 2 hurt anything or make it worse?
semi-new the the vm world :)
semi-new the the vm world :)
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Had to recreate from scratch