hi,
we want to migrate some Solaris10 (5/09) machines into Vmware but we get a unusable machine. CPU etc is O.K, but the disk I/O is very bad. I tested esx 4.0 and 4.1, without any changes. We noticed, if anybody copy or moving big files on the local disk, or from the network, everything is slow.
Just a fast test: if you create a 1GB file with dd, is takes round about 20 seconds, for a normal system, but under Solaris10 in Vmware, it takes up to 1:50 or 2:10 Min. Also installing the Vmware tools doesn't help. So, is here anybody who has Solaris10 64Bit running with good I/O performance? What for Solaris patches (x86) I need? Which driver I should use (LSI logic parallel/LSI SAS ...) etc.
cu denny
That's the problem of p2v process. It's actually unpredictable.
Try to install clean Solaris in VM and compare.
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MCSA, MCTS Hyper-V, VCP 3/4, VMware vExpert
hi,
the Vmware Support means, that the SAS Raid driver from the ESX is the problem. So, it's not Solaris itself.
cu denny
Try to use LSI Parallel then.
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MCSA, MCTS Hyper-V, VCP 3/4, VMware vExpert