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SSIS performance issues on a virtual machine

Hi,

I have been having performance issues while running SSIS packages meant for incremental load for a datawarehouse on a virtual machine.
The time taken for the job to run is varying from 45 mins to an hour and sometime drags to 3 hours. there are no locks or deadlocks seen during that time but the servers seems to be very slow.
I suspect this to be an issue with the performance of the virtual machine, while my supervisor would like me to trigger some windows performance monitoring from inside sql server.
My question is can collecting performance related information from withing the virtual guest help find the performance bottleneck or does it need to be done from the host.

Thanks.

lcohan

My (obvious) guess is due to heavy T-log operations during "...incremental load for a datawarehouse..." which means IO and could you at least check and make sure the VM mirroring is disabled? Also check anti virus exclusions and all it may apply to you listed in the KB below:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1008360

Could you also check if there are (lots) of snapshots on that host? Please see more details at link below:

https://communities.netapp.com/thread/16975

SP_2018 .

ASKER

Thanks for the reply.
Could you please elaborate regarding vm mirroring , the disks on the host are on the SAN,

The anitivirus is enabled on the host and are configured to exclude the virtual machine files.
Also there are 0 snapshots on the host.

How do i monitor windows performance from within the vm when the incremental jobs are running.?
I use perfmon to monitor baseline of the vm,

Please advise.

Thanks

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