ESXi 4.0 really slows with only 4 minimum of running virtual machines

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• my laptop is really slow with lightroom.

  my laptop is really slow with lightroom. How can I speed it up? Help

  I have a Dell Corei7 under windows 7 with 8 GB of Ram. Lightroom using 2530 MB of real memory.

  The fan works like crazy and the top of the Tower full gets also rather ward.

  No solution outside the upgrade of the laptop?

  Make sure that you have not distinguish faces on everything. Next to your name (or logo of Lightroom) in the upper left corner, there is a small triangle. Click on it and make sure that face detection is paused. Also, try turning graphics acceleration card off in the preferences-> help to run. Intuitively he saw wearing tends to slow down a lot of machines.

  That said, don't realize that Lightroom is not a lightweight program and fans running on laptops is quite common if you do a lot of heavy editing, or when export you a large number of images (or generate previews on them)

• Need more disk space to run virtual machines on R710 server with no available drive slots

  Hello

  We have a server R710 with five $2.5 146 each and three 600 GB SCSI disks SCSI.  We have no more slots.

  We want another 2-4 TB of space.   This server is used to run virtual machines to test software applications.  We have need for decent speed, but more important still need a cost-effective solution for running virtual machines.

  The budget would be in the $1000 range give or take.  I might be able to get $3000, but a $10,000 would be too.  We could consider removing disks from 146 GB 5 and replacing them with those larger, but that might not be the first choice.

  Any ideas?

  Thank you!

  What you ask for is really difficult to do within the budget without sacrificing important performance (from what you have right now in performance).

  Any external storage solution (Dell) is out of the question for $3 k (think MD1200/1220).

  The market, 2.5 "drives max out at 1 TB at 7200 RPM, 900 tr/10 k or 300 GB @ 15 k RPM.

  Dell has disks 1 to 7200 RPM 2.5 "company (for PowerEdges) for ~ $440 (see here). These are not the best choice if you want any kind of good performance.

  You might look into upgrading to 900GB 10 k rpm drives. These run $799 each today on the Dell website (see here).

  If you replace one of the 146 both each and let rebuild you could then use the extra space to another virtual disk. This would give about 2800GB.

  If you can't budget 5 of them, according to the current setup of raid, you can watch a backup and restore of the virtual disk of some 146.

  You could:

  -use 2 of the existing 146 in raid 1 for operating system and the extra space

  -use 3 x 900 in raid 5 (which would give a crude 1800 (Go so ~ 1674 usable))

  -Use the 3 600 existing RAID 5 (which would give ~ 1116 GB usable)

• Copy the files of ESXi 4 to ESXi 4 guests VERY SLOW with "FastSCP 3"?

  Hello

  I have two HP ML350 G5 servers with ESXi 4. now, I want to move some virtual machines in one ESXi host to another. This is a small test system.

  I found this program Veeam FastSCP which is a faster tool to copy files between ESXi servers, so I installed this tool on my client workstation and have begun to copy yesterday.

  But the transfer rate is of 14 MB/s, it will take & gt; 26 hours to complete my project (1 TB of data transfer). I am not satisfied with this speed, because ESXi, my client station servers and switch between the two network cards 1 GB...

  This speed is normal? Or have you of the best ways to do so?

  Firestartah is correct, that I just wanted to confirm and add direct links:

  Yes, it's transfer speed of 'normal' file for ESXi 3.5 or 4.0:

  Planned for FastSCP 3.0 speed

  File transfers are a few times faster with 'fat' ESX, but the latest versio of ESX 4.0 has a kind of service console disk read limitation described here:

  Disc playback slow speed on ESX4

• After Effects really slow with images of Panasonic (but not with images of Canon).  Help?

  So I just got a new camera Panasonic DX-1, I love.  But I imported my first clip in legacy and it is really slow.  He Smothers my CPU (new MacBook Pro retina 16 GB of RAM).  I think that is has something to do with the formatting used by my new camera... but I do not know what is the issue.  Thank you!!!

  Cameron

  I think the slowness has something to do with the ACVHD, which I think I'm exhib first... which is a codec?

  It is a very basic thing you need to learn.  AVCHD is a codec, and MOV is a media container.

  Here's a metaphor: think of a container of media - MOV, AVI, MP4, MXF - as a bobbin, able to hold various liquids.  These liquids are the codecs.

  Some liquids are good to drink: soda, iced tea.  Some are bad to drink: fuel, battery acid.

  If you work on your car, the essence is good.  If you're thirsty, gasoline is bad.

  If you work in AE, a lossless - PNG, 444 ProRes, Animation codec - is good; you will not lose image quality and AE can work with them quickly and easily.

  But some codecs compress the video signal in a way that is throwing a lot of information about the image or very difficult for AE work with.  AE can slow down a lot to use them, because they do not limit their video compression in a single image - they watch a group of video images and throw the redundant information of video.  If you use these images with any device involving time, AE must keep looking backward & forward to rebuild full video images to do what you tell it to do.  It is not a very efficient use of the capacity of EI, is it?  AE slows down.

  AVCHD is one of these bad codecs.  You are doing a job that changes the time.  Export your videos to QuickTime for creation using the PNG Quicktime codec and import them into AE... Look at how AE picks up speed.

• its really slow gains. I want to run faster and be more afficent

  its really slow connection... It's just not as fast on foot beds like he used to be.

  Select Start, all programs, accessories, System Tools, cleaning disk to emptying your trash, delete temporary Internet files and other selected options. I recommend also you click Other Options, System Restore and delete all but the last system restore point. Run Disk Defragmenter.

  Using the system restore option is most appropriate when your system is slow and you need to increase the free disk space on your C partition. If you have errors that could be solved by using the system restore to your system settings back to before the error occurred initially do not use this option.

  If more than one person uses the computer and they have their own user log you need to run Disk Cleanup in each user profile that you want to delete all the unwanted files.

  A better program of disk cleanup is cCleaner but note that cCleaner will not manage system restore points. Remove the old restore points can be important if you have little free disk space. cCleaner comes with a registry tool. Do not use this tool as any registry cleaner could lead to the creation of very difficult to resolve system errors.

  http://www.CCleaner.com/download

  Hope this helps, Gerry Cornell

• Restart host ESXi 4.0 with vCenter 4.0 as a virtual machine

  I have two hosts ESXi 4.0:

  1. the host 1 has vCenter 4.0 installed as a virtual machine with a VMware data recovery VM and some other virtual machines.

  2 host 2 has a number of virtual machines.

  I want to restart the first host and level to ESXi 4.0 Update 1 - I won't stop VMs on host 2, and I want to improve it yet.

  My plan is to stop all VMs on host 1 letting the vCenter VM until the last. I have then place my host in maintenance mode and run the host update application to install the update which will then require a restart of course. Once restarted, I'll connect to host 1 directly by using the vSphere client and restart the VM vCenter. I will then restart all my other virtual machines.

  Is this sound OK? VCenter will restart Fortunately?

  You can also power off the vCenter, register on the other (ESX) If you have the shared storage and try again.

  Be sure only to say I_moved about the question that appear when you turn on the virtual computer.

  André

• Virtual machines, run extremely slow when the console is consulted 2 virtual machines Windows Server 2008 64-bit, Windows Server 2003 32-bit, 2 VMWare for virtual machine

  I'm in a difficult situtaition here.  I am the daily contact with a new client.  My linux guy, who is also my boss who is very busy, asked me to do some research trying to find answers for what's not on this server. We have a dual Quad Core 2.5 Ghz Lenovo server with 10 GB of ram.  2 500 GB hard drives are Raid 1.  We run Virtual Server VMWare 2 on a Debian with Gnome installation as a user interface for the side of things Linux.  Grub is the boot loader. There are two virtual machines running on the server.  The one machine that serves as a domain controller is a Windows SBS 2008 Server 64 bit, and the secondary machine has no responsibility domain.  The second machine is a Windows Server 2003 32-bit.  the 10 GB of ram 6 GB is allocated to the SBS server and 4 GB to the 2003 server.

  The problem I am running into is that everything is so slow, especially if I connect remotely to do any sort of administration on the network.  Some examples of issues I've noticed is that as soon as I log on the server via Remote Desktop SBS console management Windows Server spike to 80-95% CPU usage and it will not stop unless I close the management console.  Another instance is that if I open Backup Exec 12.5 on the SBS server it will kill the speed of the processor as well.  Long story short, there are a lot of machine to do what we need to do, but something is not configured right and non of us know what it is.  Another point to note is that the server has been in production for about 3 weeks, and the server seemed to have locked up just twice.  My professional guess is that over time, some chose thing is eating causing the crash of the memory.

  Sorry I do not have much technical insight on this topic, but this is the best I have to offer.  Any questions you all have, I'll ask my people and see if I can answer, but I could really use your help here.

  Thank you in advance,

  Heath

  2 things:

  1 you really need hard drives more than 2 in a RAID 1 for proper performance under load. More disks the better. Although I don't think that's what your problem is, he'll probably be the problem Next you will do.

  2. I don't know exactly where the configuration file is on your box of Debian for VMware Server, but you should consider adding the following options in the configuration file (on windows, it's the vmware 'config.ini'):

  prefvmx.minVmMemPct = "100".

  MemTrimRate = 0

  sched.mem.pshare.Enable = "FALSE".

  mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE".

  If you do some research, you can read about what these options (the largest is the memory page sharing - it should only be left on if you have a bunch of similar virtual machines running on the same box, that you don't have.) I honestly know why this is on by default, he kills the CPU when virtual machines are running different operating systems). These are the options that I now use standard in VMware Server deployments, with huge performance increases after you have added the. Just give a try.

  Edit: Also make sure that you have installed in your virtual machines VMware tools.

  Dimitri Rodis

  Integrita Systems LLC

  http://www.integritasystems.com

• Closing and reopening the workstation with running virtual machines

  I have recently upgraded to 10 Workstation and I am having a strange problem. In preferences, I have checked option which says "continue to VMs run after the closure of workstation. In workplace planned 9 this option worked exactly, but workstation 10 seems that partially works as expected. In Workstation 9 I could close my computer, and then open then in from the tray icon to always see my virtual machines running with the small green icon play on them. However, in the 10 workstation I close the workstation and all my virtual machines continue to run, but when I reopen it workstation all my virtual machines appear in the workstation as if they are off; but they run because I can RDP for them. If I right click on one of them all is grey with the exception of mark it as a favorite and delete. I can't power off, change the settings, see the console, or anything like that. The shows the icon that VMs are being run, but even suspend, stop or suspend tray icon options or background open VMs do not work either. The only way I found actually to get my computer working again is to use the Task Manager to kill the task of vmware - vmx.exe. As soon as the task is killed for each workstation running, they operate again in the workstation.

  If anyone has encountered this problem, or know a fix for this? I have run several virtual machines and never have any idea that vmware - vmx.exe is for what VM when needing to change something on one of them. I make sure that I can kill them all in order to make a change to one of them.

  David Moore

  Ok. I have this problem. However, the fix has been an awareness in desperate need of repair. I ended up uninstalling the VMware Workstation and then remove all references to the registry with REGEDIT. I then restarted the computer and reinstalled VMware Workstation again. After this heavy treatment, it works again the way it should work. It seems that the upgrade to the latest version of Workstation 9 to the latest version of 10 break something somewhere.

  By the way, Dayworker, it was and is version 10.0.3.

• problem with mcafee DLP Device control on virtual machines Windows XP

  Hallo,

  We use view ESX 4.1 and 4.5.
  I have the problem that we use DLP 9.1 with EPO 4.5 and have the problem that when we use DLP USB glue with series nummer they do not work through zeroclient on the virtual machine.

  We've set the rules in the operative part of DLP controll that she is allowed to use usb sticks which are content encrypted and where the serial number is saved in the DLP.

  
  It works fine on normal physical laptop but if I use the same USB on my zeroclient who got a machine virtual vmware as the stick got allways blocked.
  I also tried to register before the stick no serialnumber and used the VID and PID, but also that have the same result as the stick has blocked.

  
  If I disable all the rules of control of the aircraft as the stick got mapped from zeroclient to the virtual machine without problem.
  Can help you to use or is there any practice well known for using control of the device with virtual machines?

  I was also in touch with mcafee, but they want to say, this problem is related to vmware and I close go in contact with vmware.
  
  Best regards
  Heinze MS

  Hallo,

  so, we found the problem.

  The reason why in the virtual machine, it has no SN the stick that we couldn't resolve, but we are in contact with the zeroclient of the teradici seller.

  The reason why the instance id of the stick and PID or VID where does not have a problem in the permission set for the users who have applied the policy of the EPO.

  DLP policy showed he applied rules and also the show later when you loggon, but he was right on the configuration screen that this rule are configuried when you use DLP political configuration of the importation of the EPO server it load the config which is really being used and so we saw that when we have configured the USB via the instance VID PID or device that was never written on the server EPO and never applied to the virtual machine :-)

  best regards, perhaps it's useful for someone

• Need help with replacing a drive on a virtual machine

  Test case for something I need to do on a separate production machine.  Virtual MACHINE is running WinSvr2003.  Only the hard disk assigned to the virtual machine is one of 20 GB disk, C: using this.  Need to C: to be larger.  Add a 40 GB drive to the configuration of the VM in the CR.  Started an iso BartPE with plug-in in Ghost.  Ghost can copy the C: 20 GB drive on the 40 GB drive.  Went in the VM config and changed is the 40 GB SCSI 0.1 drive and the drive of 20 GB at SCSI0, 2.  After I saved, VMware changed the 40 GB on disk 1 and the 20 GB on disk 2.  Went it into the BIOS on the machine config to boot the disk of 40 GB.  But no matter how I put it in the BIOS, it would only start on the 20 GB drive.  Went in the VM config and removed the 20 GB drive (which is not an option on the production machine, it has a volume of data on the same drive).  It boots to Windows, so I guess it's start on the 40 GB drive.  But I am unable to connect to it.  It shows that the application of settings, record the settings, then back to the login screen, all within 2 seconds approximately.

  Is there anything else I need to do to (1) move the volume from the Windows system to a new disk w without side effects in Windows and (2) so that it can start on the new disk correctly?

  If it is a single virtual drive with 2 partitions and the C:\ is on the front of the drive, Extpart won't help. It is usually best to separate the partitions to multiple virtual disks. I use the converter to V2V the VM and move on their own virtual disk partitions, then develop them if necessary.

• Help with VM monitoring parameter at the virtual machine level

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  Hello, vSphereUser7-

  I've seen your follow-up to your thread on this topic at http://communities.vmware.com/message/1859219#1859219.  Between your answer and your question you mention in this thread, I came to realize what seems to be the problem for you.  I have re-written a code in the other thread, based on that blog DKarlson on and commented on why you may receive this error in the vSphere client.  See this thread for more info on what is happening here.

  And let us know if it was the question that you run in to.

• How to transfer a demo version of 60 days in free ESXi 4.0 or re - install free version without losing existing virtual machines?

  I was sure that I have the free version.  Help - & gt; about; He says I have VMWare Vsphere Esxi 4.0

  I have 2 existing existing computers on the server that I can't seem to British Colombia, that the 60 day demo has expired.  I thought it was free...

  How can I get a 'free' liscence key installed on the server for Vsphere, that I have now with the re - install, or lose my machines...

  or how re - install the free version while keeping my existing vm?

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  David

  When you register for the download, you should have received an email with a link to your key not expiring.  This key needs to be added to your ESXi host by going to the configuration, features licensed tab - change.

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• vSphere 4.0u2 activate VCA with running virtual machines?

  Hello

  We are in the process of upgrading/migration of 4.0u2 ESX to ESXi 4.1.

  vCenter has been upgraded to 4.1 and we have received a couple of new hosts, which we are in the process of ESXi 4.1 installation on.

  We would like to put the new 4.1 hosts in a HA/DRS cluster's existing capabilities while we improve the hosts in a cluster.

  However, a difference between processors in the old and new guests two-way vMotion (Opteron 2435 vs. Opteron 6174).

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  It seems that the option activate CVS for Opteron Gen 3 is available on the cluster's existing ESX4.0u2 - even if the virtual machines are running.

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  I tried direct CVS on a test cluster containing two new hosts ESXi4.1 and a test of running VMs - this has worked.

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  Best regards

  Martin

  VCA goes through the same process of validation that vMotion don't - so it will not let you do if he won't have to work. I did not work with AMD chips in this configuration, but I did it with intel (and recently) and it worked very well and in production.

• Open with: 'Application name' - 'Name of the Virtual Machine' (2.0.4) AND (2.0.5)

  Hello

  Looking for help here...

  I notice that if I try to open a file on my Mac with an application of my virtual machine (Win XP Professional) I get 2 options for each windows application:

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  2. Windows Media Player - Windows XP Professional (2.0.5)

  The 2.0.4 option never works but the 2.0.5 option. I know this has something to do with the upgrade to the latest 2.0.5 version, but how do you / is it possible to remove the non-fonctionnel 2.0.4 options?

  Help, please! It's pretty boring.

  I have only haveone of virtual machine set up.

  Rich

  Make sure that the virtual machine is turned off and not suspended.  First locate the virtual machine in the finder.  You can do it by Ctrlclicking on it from the library of the virtual machine and choose Show in Finder.  In Finder Ctrlthe .vmwarevm of the virtual machine and choose "show package content".  If some shows as a folder go there.  Of in the virtual machine folder, you will see a folder named Applications.  Applications are the links to the Applications that you open in the virtual machine.  Remove vouchers there should do.  You may be able to determine the good by the update and the last number should be also the most recent.  These changes to take effect, you will need to reboot or restart the finder.  To restart the finder press and hold Esc, command,Option, and choose finder in there and restart.

  You can also just delete the Applications folder and then start the virtual machine.  Once that the virtual machine is started just enter the unit.  Entering the unit will recreate this Applications folder with the correct files in there.  You should always restart or restart the finder once this is done before it takes effect in the mac operating system.