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VMware server console crashing/excessive disk thrashing

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Hi All,

 

I have a Dell 1950 with 2 Quade Core CPU's, 16 GB RAM, 4 2.5" 146 GB SAS drives in RAID 5 and Windows 2003 server x64. I installed Vmware server 1.0.5 and am running three virtual machines , each with 2 GB RAM. The 3 vm's are a AD server, Exchange 2007 and a XP client for testing a new domain. My vmware console keeps crashing and says "Failed to fit guest to window. Pipe connection broken?". Also, I noticed that CPU and RAM on the Host machine are barely used (as expected), page file usage is at 8 GB and disk is thrashing so hard (all lights on the 4 drives are flashing furiously) that all VM's are unusable. Please check screenshots of perfmon attached.

 

 

I have tried:

 

  • Disabling windows file indexing>Defrag.

  • Dialing down RAM to 1 GB

  • Disabling large memory optimization in vmware ( adding these lines ot the vmx file
         sched.mem.pshare.enable = "FALSE"
         mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE"
         MemTrimRate = "0"
         MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE")

  • Set Processors to 1 in the VM.

  • Resized Page File to see if I could force the vm's to use RAM alloted to them in stead of using page file.

  • Ensure that "Fit all Virtual machine memory into reserved host RAM" option is checked.

Did I miss something or do I need to provide more information?

Any and all assistance is appreciated-Thanks Guys,

Adipolle


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