Hello
I virtualized a physical (very old) machine with VMWare Converter. The operating system is a Suse 9 (32bit) and the machine is primarly used for a web application (apache2, php) with an Informix-database.
The virtualized machine now runs on a Windows Server 2008 R2 (64bit) in VMWare Workstation. The server is a HP ML310e G8 with RAID 1 and two regular HDS (I think 7200rpm) + 10 GB RAM.
Now everything works in this new VM, but the web-application is much slower than before (and before it ran on a really really old pc!).
I don't know what the problem is. Maybe you guys have an idea?
The only possible bottleneck I can think of is the Harddisk - which may be too slow? Maybe also because of RAID 1?
What do you think: If I'd buy an SSD, put it in the server and copy all files of this VM on it (still let the Windows Server 2008 on the normal disk) would it make a big difference?
Do you have any other suggestions/approaches which I should consider?
Thanks.
