hello, i use vmware server 1.06 on a hp DL380 G5 quad core with RaID 1+0 SAS drives and 10gb RAM. the host OS is Centos 5.2 with PAE kernel.
I imported 4 virtual machines (2 win2Ksrv and 2 linux centos)
the 2 linux were moved using reinstallation/copy and the performance is ok.
The 2 windows machines were converted using vmware converter, and the real old machines were using scsi raid 1 drives.
the conversion were dificult, i had a blue screen at reboot and had to repair windows using the install CD.
now the machine works but disk performance is very bad when i copy large file (100mb).
i did a test with a openoffice installer.exe (100mb),when i duplicate it on the converted drive it takes more than 20 seconds to copy itself.
i created for test another scsi virtual drive, mounted and formated in ntfs in my converted VM and the duplication is less than 2 seconds when i use this virtual drive.
my converted machines are preallocated one and semms to use virtual scsi buslogic drivers.
i moved the problematic VM on my mac using vmware fusion. and the problem is the same (slow copy on converted image but fast on a new created image)
what can i do ? i cannot defragment these vm since they are preallocated ?
any ideas ?
i can copy all my content to a newly created vmdk but i'll probably have to redo all rights and shares...