hi guys some info fisrt
6 ESX 3.5u4 - 1 Cluster - 1 resource pool all values by default
32GB RAM each ESX = 192 GB total
8 CPU x 2.9 GHz - Intel Xeon X5770 eachESX.
View 3.1.1
270 VMs Windows XP SP3 - 1 vCPU - 512 MB RAM - power on all day long for servicing virtual desktops to Wyse Thin Clients. Software used: Internet Explorer - 2 third party apps - Word/Excel Viewers
IBM DS4700 Storage 7 L UNS about 150 GB available for every LUN - Connected using Fiber Channel -
This issue is been for 2 weeks now,
7:00 am - Some people start working - they take calls and use the Wyse Thin Clients - 30 people - So far so good
8:00 am - more people log to the thin Client - 30 more people - So far so good
9:30 am - Nothing changes the same amount of people logged but VM applications start running slow, clicking win menu takes a lot to show up, Internet Explorer is prettty slow to open, if they try typing in the third party app they cannot see the app being updated - basically they cannot continue worlkin.
Interesting point here is and it has nothing to do with Vmware View is when you reboot a VM that is having te problem it takes about 10 - 15 minues to be up and running again I mean to show the promt for user/pass again. Not all the machines are rebooted, jus 3 or 4 since they are completely useless.
11:00 am - The VMs that were not rebooted are working fine again and during the day all VMs stay working fine even when there are even more users since at 1:00 pm more people logs to the systems. yeah this is a call center
Any pointer what logs should I check? or where to start Troubleshootin
I really don't see any high CPU or memory usage.
Is it OK this all 270 VMs power on even when only a maximum of 120 can be actually being used.
Any other idea what could be wrong?
and the most important fact here all days is he same time abot 9:28 - 9:32 am ?:| even weekends when the amount of people is like 20
CPU - Memory Usage
thanks a lot
