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Are you looking at task manager or VMWAre? &nbsp;What type of drives are you running on the backend
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Are you looking at task manager or VMWAre?  What type of drives are you running on the backend

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VM has two disks <br />
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one VMDK on Equallogic SAN (OS)<br />
one raw mapping to equallogic SAN (Exchange DataStore)<br />
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Tried copying a file on C:\Data\1Gb.file to C:\TestCopy\<br />
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Had a look at taskmanager while the copy occured but nothing that stood out<br />
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SAN runs quite a few SAS 15k Disks in raid 5 (As recommended by Dell and equallogic)
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VM has two disks

one VMDK on Equallogic SAN (OS)
one raw mapping to equallogic SAN (Exchange DataStore)

Tried copying a file on C:\Data\1Gb.file to C:\TestCopy\

Had a look at taskmanager while the copy occured but nothing that stood out

SAN runs quite a few SAS 15k Disks in raid 5 (As recommended by Dell and equallogic)

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No resolution yet - will investigate further
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No resolution yet - will investigate further

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We have a windows 2008 Server running on a ESXi 4.1 Host within Vcenter. <br />
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The windows guest does run exchange 2007 server and has 1 xVCPU and 8 GB ram.<br />
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For some reason copying a 1 GB file from one folder to another on the same disk takes 5-10 minutes??? <br />
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Server even becomes slow , but I cannot see any hit on CPU or Memory. <br />
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Any ideas?<br />
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Copying the file off to another server on the network only takes a few seconds!!
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We have a windows 2008 Server running on a ESXi 4.1 Host within Vcenter. 

The windows guest does run exchange 2007 server and has 1 xVCPU and 8 GB ram.

For some reason copying a 1 GB file from one folder to another on the same disk takes 5-10 minutes??? 

Server even becomes slow , but I cannot see any hit on CPU or Memory. 

Any ideas?

Copying the file off to another server on the network only takes a few seconds!!

Windows 2008 server on Vmware ESXI 4.1 Host copying of files slow

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.