VMWare ESX Server
Discussion
UpTheIron said:
Hi Darren,
Yes, use ESX *fairly* extensively, but my experience is limited to relatively few hardware platforms, but I might be able to help.
I'm also VMware certified, so in theory I should know what I am talking about!!!
You might be able to help then (though I don't put much faith in a VCP certificate)!
I'm using a certified hardware platform (popular manufacturer, 4 cpu, 16GB memory, SAN etc) and trying to work out whether I'm getting reasonable disk IO.
I've also got a pre-production (very high spec) server which is producing some great results (120Mb/sec onto a pair of mirrored disks from a single VM).
However, my usual hardware platform is struggling to get anywhere near that.
Would you mind taking a look at ESXTOP and seeing what you get on your VM machines. If you've got a development box, something like IOMETER (which is downloadable should be able to stress it).
cheers,
D
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