I have a Dell Poweredge 2950. This machine has (2) quad core processors, 8 gigs of ram, (2) dual port gigabit NIC's, and Windows 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition for the Host OS. I recently uninstalled Microsoft's Virtual Server 2005 R2 and Installed VMware Server. I used VMware's converter to convert my two Virtual Machines to VMware.
The C: drive on this host is (2) 70gig 15k disks in a raid 1 config. My E: drive is (6) 70 gig 15k disks in a raid 10 config. My VMware machines are stored on the E: drive. It has a SAS Raid Perc5/i Controller.
I have gave 2.5 gig of ram to one VM and 3gigs to the other VM. I have already stripped uneeded components such as audio, cdrom ect. I'm currently running 1 VM with 2 processors and the other VM with 1. Each VM has its own Bridged Network Adapter.
My problem is performance of these virtual machines is very spuratic. I noticed anytime I access a VM and put a load on it, (open a file share) my ping response will jump from >1 to >4 or so, I think its a disk issue since its only when I put load on it. I'm running the defualt LSI Logic driver that was installed by default and have even tried the LSI Logic 1020/1030 Ultra 320 SCSI Adapter driver I found on VMware's site for the esx server but still the same problem. Do I need to load a non raid controller SAS Driver from Dell in the Guest OS?
Thanks,
Chris