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mikeleahyirelan
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vm acting slow

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i did a p2v on a two processor server with 4 gb of ram. it all went ok but an application that users access via the network is now acting slowly. the converter assigned 4 gb ram to the server and 4 processors (dont know why, the original two processors didnt have dual cores). the server is up and running but a tad slower to respond than my other servers. i assigned it high priority shares for cpu and memory and there is no scarcity of resources so reservations and limits arent a problem. when it was a physical machine there was no performance problem at all. im in a bit of a mess here as its a production server and the app is important. the app is based on a MS accesss database. is it somethign to do with the cpus????

thanks so much

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AndreTheGiant
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First try to change to 2 proc.

If you see that VM doesn't use 2 proc, then change to 1.

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mikeleahyirelan
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forgot to say its ms 2003 server standard. in vi client the cpu usage is 900 mhz and memory is 3800 mb even though task mgr on the server is showing no performance issues

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mikeleahyirelan
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in the performance tab the cpu counters are going crazy but dont show it on the task mgr.

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mikeleahyirelan
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ok i have read posts and i think i should change the vm to one cpu. having 4 cpus makes it pause processing until it can get control of 4 cpus, am i correct?

can i just shut down and change or do i have to downgrade the hal. i have other vm's with two cpus, should i change them all to one??

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AndreTheGiant
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First try to change to 2 proc.

If you see that VM doesn't use 2 proc, then change to 1.

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Steve_Tron
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Hi,

The reason for the 4 vCPUs is probably due to the original processors being Hyper threading processors, giving you four logical processors. Andre's right try two vCPU's then one. Depending on how many CPU's and cores each of your ESX hosts have you run into performance issues with VM's with 4 vCPU due to scheduling contention on the host. For example and very basically if you have a dual quad core host a 2 vCPU vm will have 12 scheduling slots for the VM. IF the vm has a 4 vCPU you limit this down to 2. The more VMs the worse the overall performance will be.

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I disagree with Andre - the right thing to do drop to a single vCPU and see the impact - with Windows 2003 you do not have to change the HAL -

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AndreTheGiant
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the right thing to do drop to a single vCPU and see the impact - with Windows 2003 you do not have to change the HAL -

I'm not sure.

I'm only sure that HAL automatically change from uni to multi. But not from multi to uni:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/29202

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mikeleahyirelan
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thanks guys. i downgraded it to a single cpu and changed the HAL and all is better now

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AndreTheGiant
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You're welcome.

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Glad to hear do not forget to award points -

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