Server 2008 extremely slow on ESXi 4 (208167)

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  Now when I try to install Centos 4.8 and even windows XP Professional in HyperV 2012, it of extremely slow, probably qwill takes 2 hours just to install XP, (I am aware Centos 4.8 iss not supported by Microsoft for reasons of competition), try using HyperV is also very slow, I already posted this on Microsoft forum.

  any idea?

  BTW, this is my first post here, this web page as system is difficult to use, I can't PASTE anything, and if I try to paste anything, I won't be able to type anything it.

  If you can manage without it, I would delete the USB of the Guest adapter.  Also, you might get better performance if you install VMware Tools.

• Virtual run Win Server 2008, Enterprise Edition on ESXI 4

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  I have MS Windows 2008 Enterprise Server that allows up to 4 Windows servers to run as VMs using the same VM license key. Can I run the server of Windows 4 VM on ESXi 4 platform using the same VM license key? I think that if MS allows the VM 4 of to run on their Hyper V Server 2008 then I am able to run the VM on ESXi 4, using the license key a VM.

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• Windows Server 2008 R2 installs on ESXi 4

  I have a setup of ESX4 full blown at the headquarters, but we have an ESXi 4 just put us in a remote desktop (thanks to win a bunch of servers because of virtualization in the first place).

  This remote ESXi 4.0 server is for D.R. tests really, but I wanted to test the new DFS on Server 2008 R2 / branch Cache and all that jazz between the two sites.

  The problem is that the Server 2008 R2 will not be installed.  The start screen shows

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  Well, it's a processor 1.86 GHz Xeon 5120 and according to Intel, it IS 64-bit compatible:

  http://Ark.Intel.com/product.aspx?ID=27215 & Processor = 5120 & Spec-codes = SL9RY, SLABQ, SLAGD

  Heck, the original server COMES with a license for Windows Server 2003 64-bit.

  Is this a limitation with ESXi?  Should we go full blown ESX to run this?  The server is an HP ProLiant DL360 G5 server.

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  I forgot to mention. Enabling hardware virtualization in the BIOS may require a power cycle not only reboot.

• Migration of Essential Business Server 2008 Hyper-V to ESXi 5

  Hello world

  I would like to start by saying this would be my first time on these forums posting and get my feet wet with ESX, so please be gentle! After being loaded to a backup plan, I decided to give up the use of Hyper-V and use ESX. We currently have Essential Business Server (EBS) 2008 which consists essentially of 3 Server 2008 virtual computers running on top of Hyper-V. I tried to install from scratch on the ESX host without a bit of luck, the installation process is VERY specific and fails during the installation process. There was no clue as to how to fix it, I just got a dialog box saying just reformat and start over; He gave a second shot, but again fell flat on his face. And here, I discovered the VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client, seems to be the ideal solution, because we want a backup job! So far 2 servers have been migrated with 1 only being able to boot successfully to the operating system. The other is a domain controller, that I read can be very difficult to migrate and they are particularly sensitive to the hardware changes. Article I read seemed only to cover NT-2003 domain controllers not sure if I can go according to the Dec.

  I'm curious to know if anyone has had some luck in the same case to EBS 2008. I found no guides on the EBS installation on an ESX host, and as much as I'd like to use something different, I'm stuck with it for now. Is there something I'm missing when migrating the DC? The only option I changed was to install VMware Tools after migration and add a NETWORK adapter as the default does not select a network adapter. I still have an Exchange Server, which also acts as a domain controller, to migrate, but I wonder if I'll run into the same problem. I really want to do this work and any suggestions would be helpful.

  So, in summary: vm migrated from Hyper-V to the ESX host, using converter, DC won't boot to the operating system in normal or safe mode it just hangs.

  If you have managed to come out with a hot clone of your ad and it looks fine, you can continue with this, however when you clone a DC a cold clone is always recommended / generally fewer problems because that AD is a sequence of the database which has no way to turn it off.  A cold clone allows you to boot into a linux boot CD environment to clone the box, which means that no service is running, which means you get all the data.

  As far as your question DMZ will you have 2 options.

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  You can spend 1-2 psyhical NICs on the host ESX for a vSwitch DMZ, this may however considered a "waste of nics' However, it maintains the simpler and allows you to connect all the same way, as if it where psyhical.  For example:

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  In VMware, you can tag VLAN on your groups of ports and then based on the balance sheet that you put on your switch ports switch will route traffice to the location.  For example, if you have your network DMZ with a VLAN 10 all traffice leaving this virtual switch when it hits your switch psyhical will have a tag VLAN 10.  So when your switch psyhical see this traffic (if it is configured correctly) he'll see oh this traffice to VLAN 10 I have this Router to port 2 on my firewall to your dmz ect.

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• Running a Server 2008 R2 VM on ESXi 4

  I installed it and everything seemed fine, but then I installed the VMware tools and not the virtual machine does not completely start (just goes to a blank screen

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  ---

  VMware vExpert 2009

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• Performance issues with Windows Server 2008 host

  Hi all

  If I use a Windows Server 2008 host on my ESXi 4 installation.  I've recently upgraded to version 4 and had previously experienced similar problems and 3.5.  I also improved the hardware in the virtual computer to version 7 on all my guest OS.  The host in question is a file server.  Essentially what happens is sometimes that if a user opens a document (for most of the audio and/or video documents), the media file will take a minute or two to load then jump during playback.  If it's something like a file PDF/Word/Excel, the respective program crashes when the file loads or changes are saved, taking about a minute to respond to the user to enter again.  This problem is also very sparadic.  I even had this problem occurs when I'm the only user accessing the file server.  The specification of my VMware host is 3.2 GHz Xeon dual processor and 7 GB of RAM.  Two data warehouses are hosted on internal SATA hard drives.  ESXi is on the build 219382.  VMware tools is installed and update on all guest OS so far.  With regard to the use of the resources on the computer host, the memory usage with all my virtual machines running is almost always around 5.2 GB on the 7 available and the CPU usage is usually around 2 GHz.

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  Other ideas are also welcome.

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  Using the means on board mode SATA drive controller (or not RAID) of the SATA it runs the performance as low as possible.

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• ESXi 5.1 VM running extremely slow after a power failure

  Help, our virtual machines are run at a crawl since a power outage a few days ago. Everything seems to be in good shape.

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  Hello

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  If it is possible to download...

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  See also:

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  VMware KB: Troubleshooting problems of network in a vSphere environment performance

  VMware KB: Determine if the VM and ESX host blocking problem is caused by hardware issues

  VMware KB: Performance high on Windows virtual machines network latency or poor network

  VMware KB: Performance of local storage of the poor for VMware ESXi/ESX troubleshooting controller

  VMware KB: Using esxtop to identify problems of performance of storage to ESX / ESXi (several versions)

  Performance - main list links

  Kind regards

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  Matthias.

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