ESX 6.7 is performing like a dog even with only 4 Microsoft Server 2016 virtual servers in a home lab.
VMs are a DC, Citrix XenDesktop, SQL 17, and Virtual Center.
Virtual Centre shows the host as 4 CPUs x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-1620 v2 @ 3.70GHz.
Even though the servers aren't doing anything it's painfully slow .... opening a window, doing anything within the VMs ... CPU on the host and VMs shows very little work load.
Memory usage is 17GB of 32GB, and over 1 TB storage free.
Is this processor just not suitable for ESX and should I be using Workstation pro instead?
Thanks ...
Pricks like you who jump in without reading the post, thinking you are all high and mighty ruin these forums.
The only one who thinks you are helpful is Wog Boy Diego who is probably under your desk at the moment checking your cabling.
What type of disc? SSD?
No it's just an internal 2 TB ATA disk.
The same one ESX is installed on, along with the VMs and ISOs etc in a single Datastore.
I do have a 250 GB SSD with Windows 10 that I dual boot too but I don't really use it.
The slow performance is more like freezing frequently and frustrating as hell (already smashed one mouse)… could this be a disk performance issue and SSD would fix it?
Because for $400 I could throw a 1 TB SSD in for the VMs if that would fix it?
The SSD drive will greatly improve performance.
ATA disk is too slow.
Please consider marking this answer "correct" or "helpful" if you think your question have been answered correctly.
I'm getting freezing of up to 30 seconds just clicking on the start button in a VM or trying to open task manager.
I agree HDD are a lot slower than SSD but surely not that much slower??
Are you sure you are trying to help or just throwing any suggestion out there and requesting I mark it as Correct so you can get extra brownie points to impress your friends and put on your resume??
Look:
Is it necessary for the guest OS to support SSD if the virtual machine file is placed on a SSD?
VMWare Workstation multiple VMs on single SSD
You are a clown!
These articles are 6 years old and have no relevance.
Why don't you go away, create your own discussions and then correct them yourself so you get points and go from being a horse to a Queen??
First of all, you're running ESXi on an unsupported platform even if the CPU is supported. Second, you're running multiple VMs on *literally* the worst possible storage imaginable (next to a USB disk). Third, you have no performance data to make any sort of educated guess as to where your problem lies, so you really have no idea what is and what is not relevant. Diego is only trying to help you with your unsupported lab situation. If you're not willing to work with us to help yourself...for free I might add...you can kindly go elsewhere.
Go and blow your boyfriend
Look at my original post dickead about whether I should be running VMware Workstation instead.
Take the damn hypervisor out of your butt before replying.
Pricks like you who jump in without reading the post, thinking you are all high and mighty ruin these forums.
The only one who thinks you are helpful is Wog Boy Diego who is probably under your desk at the moment checking your cabling.
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