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5 Replies Last post: Oct 26, 2009 3:47 AM by diego2

Virtual Appliance deployment degradation on vSphere4 posted: Oct 23, 2009 1:04 AM

Lexus16

6 posts since
Oct 20, 2009

Hello,

We have high performance degradation when our Appliance is deployed to
ESX server via Virtual Center. When the appliance is deployed to ESX
directly we don’t have such problem.
We are using the following script:

curl -u username:NfelMC2Ub -k -T upload https://10.250.148.27/folder/LR1_11133_ESXAppliance/upload.dat?dcPath=Center&dsName=Storage1

where 10.250.148.27 is the address of Virtual Center. If we specify the
address of ESX instead of Virtual Center, everything works fast.
BTW such problem appeared on vSphere 4, on previous versions everything was fine.
Could you please answer:

What could be the reason of this degradation?
How can we tune up the speed of deployment via Virtual Center?
If we have correct credentials on Virtual Center, is it possible to deploy directly to the ESX registered on it?

Thank you

Re: Virtual Appliance deployment degradation on vSphere4

1. Oct 23, 2009 3:54 AM

in response to: Lexus16

esloof

271 posts since
Nov 11, 2006

In what part of the command do you specify the virtual appliance source file name?

I'm trying to reproduce it, but I don't get it to work.

curl -u administrator:vmware -k -T upload https://192.168.201.17/folder/Desktop/upload.dat?dcPath=Student Servers&dsName=TEMPLATES

Re: Virtual Appliance deployment degradation on vSphere4

2. Oct 23, 2009 5:42 AM

in response to: esloof

diego2

2 posts since
Oct 23, 2009

I guess:

curl -u administrator:vmware -k -T virtual_machine.vmx https://192.168.201.17/folder/MuVmFolder/virtual_machine.vmx?dcPath=Datacenter&dsName=Storage1

The same url you can get by browsing your Virtual Center with https://192.168.201.17/folder.

For me it works.

Re: Virtual Appliance deployment degradation on vSphere4

3. Oct 23, 2009 10:01 AM

in response to: Lexus16

sudarsan

263 posts since
Sep 20, 2006

I don't know the answer - if I were to guess, perhaps when vc is involved there is an additional copy from client->vc and vc->esx ? You can probably verify this by checking on the network traffic on vc.

Thanks
Sudarsan