I'm not familiar with VMWare tuning at all, so perhaps I just shouldn't respond. But, you didn't mention memory. I do run a Windows guest under Xen, as well as a number of Linux hosts. I find that they all run really well on even cheap hardware and that the processor isn't nearly as important as the memory.
And while a Linux virtual host can certainly do fine with 64M or 128M of memory, I have to give the Windows host at least half a gig to be useful. The Windows machines I run virtualized though are also just used for occasional desktop support/web browser testing/problem reproducing usage. They are not servers running anything of consequence. I guess what I'm saying is... have you tried throwing more memory at the problem? -N On Tuesday 22 January 2008 08:52, Brian Karas wrote: > I've got a couple of windows guests (SQL Server and IIS) running on a > fairly beefy CentOS box (64 bit, dual quad-core, Dell 2950 I think). > Everything just seems way slower than it should. > > I don't have enough experience to really dig into it. If anyone has any > suggestions/tips/ideas/etc it would be much appreciated. I'd like to > figure out the best way to allocate resources to get a fairly decent > response time and stability. > > -- > Brk > > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
