I've found several discussions about this issue (eg http://communities.vmware.com/message/1501167#1501167, http://communities.vmware.com/message/1448377#1448377, etc) in Windows 7, but I've also found that the same vSphere Client version accessing the same ESXi server is running OK in XP guest. It worths noting that the XP guest is running INSIDE my Windows 7 host!
OK, here are my specs:
Win7 runtime (host) computer:
CPU: Intel Cotre 2 Quad Q9550 @ 2.83GHz
RAM: 8GB DDR3 @ 1067MHz
Hard drive: 640 GB, SATA II, 7200 rpm
O/S: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
XP runtime (guest) computer:
CPU: 2.83GHz (1 core)
RAM: 256 MB
Hard drive: 8GB
O/S: Windows XP Pro 32 bit
ESXi version = 4.1.0 (build 348481)
vSphere Client version = 4.1.0-345043
The client problem in Win7 is that I could see clearly the order by which it draws the graphical components one-by-one (eg the squares, the scroll bars, the small icons, the column header squares, etc) on the screen! While on XP, the content is almost instantaneously drawn!
For example, the first time I click on "Summary" tab, it took about 6 seconds to draw everything! The second time I click on it is better: about 2 seconds.
Resource Allocation: 5 sec
Performance: 4 sec
Configuration: 2 sec
Config then Storage: 2 sec
etc, etc
This makes me turn to guest XP to run this snail client. Very unbelievable!
I don't know .... is it a problem with .NET???
The vSphere Client runs slow on any system running Aero visualization.
Right click on the shortcut to the vSphere client (or application itself), go to the Compatibility tab, and check the box "Disable desktop composition". This will change your visuals to basic mode whenever the vSphere client is run, and will drastically improve draw speed on the client.
The vSphere Client runs slow on any system running Aero visualization.
Right click on the shortcut to the vSphere client (or application itself), go to the Compatibility tab, and check the box "Disable desktop composition". This will change your visuals to basic mode whenever the vSphere client is run, and will drastically improve draw speed on the client.
Yes, indeed!
Is VMware going to make it work better with Aero? Because everytime the client is running, it's sort of "switching" the whole screen. Very unpleasant and user-unfriendly.
I certainly hope so, but I have not heard anything. I use a 2008 R2 VM as my primary workstation, so it's a non issue for me, but I really disliked having to turn off Aero on my Windows 7 laptop.
Hello,
This problem re-appear since i have upgrade all : vcenter 4.1 to U2, Vsphere 4.1 to build 582267 and the vsphere client too.
With vsphere client, slow video display under Win7 64. So i have installed vnc server in the clients and i work with vnc client : it's faster...
but the display is not so slow with VM running linux, just with VM running windows 32bits.
i have tried with "Disable desktop composition" : not really faster.
i have tried under win xp : not really faster.
i hope an update from VMWare.
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