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VMWare ESXI 5.0 S L O W

I have a recent install where I have ESXI 5.0 running on a DELL Power Edge T420

I have the following VMs running

Three windows 2008 R2 x64 Servers

1- Domain Controller
2- Application Server
3- SQL 2008 R2

4 Windows 7 Ultimate x64
1 Windows 7 Ultimate x32

The windows 7 machine all run VERY SLOW.

I have installed the VMWare tools.

Video Driver is set as the VMWare 3D driver

If I open a windows explorer window and click on it and drag it around the screen it lags like crazy.

Where to begin??

Thanks!!

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

how much memory have you allocated to Windows 7, 2GB and 2vCPU?

what datastore are you running on, not a single SATA disk?

Wilder_Admin

vmware is mostly the i/o problem of the speed not the cpu or the mem. so you have to check the parameter if it is fast enough. mostly sql server kills i/o they eat this for lunch. Best practise for sql is to have a lot of hdd instead of some and big ones.

Curtis Long

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I have 4 Gig of Ram assigned. 2 Sockets with 2 cores each.

I have 3 500 GIG 7200 RPM SATA drives set as a RAID 5.

I have 2 Six Core processors and 64 GIG of RAM.

I can get the exact specs if you need.

Curtis Long

ASKER

I actually do not even have SQL running yet.

It is just the DC and the APP server and the 5 workstations.

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Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

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