Dell PE R900
4 Quad core 3.0Ghz
32GB memory
2 x Dell equal logic PS5000 with 12 disks each.
8 x gigabyte network cards. (3 x LAN, 3 x SAN LAN and 2 x Vmotion all on separate networks, plugged in on their own 1GB network switch)
Nic Teaming enabled on the 3 different vSwitches.
All vm Datastores running on Dell equalogic SAN.
vSphere 4 Standard build 208167 running on local disk.
4 x Win 2003 Ent 32bit Terminal servers running on PE R900.
Currently 4 VCPU's, 4GB memory. No com ports or Floppy drive. CDrom still there to do vmtools updates.
Tried allot of different configurations mentioned in google searches.
1. Giving Terminal servers 1 CPU.
2. Reinstalling Terminal servers and starting from scratch. (Win 2003 SP2, Office 2007 SP2 and IE 8).
3. Installing new VMxnet 3 network adapters on Win 2003 Ent TS.
4. Tried increasing the CPU resources allocation.
5. No HT and physical processor affinity set (1 processor 4 cores per TS.)
6. Not sure if I left anything out.
NLB setup in windows and vmware guide followed for setting it up.
Normally about 3 to 4 users logged on to 1 TS at a time.
IE, Office and winlogon mostly culparates.
Understand the winlogon to go high once a user logon.
But why will the Win 2003 Ent TS OS show CPU 100% when 3 of the users use IE showing about 25% usage of CPU.
Slowing down the whole server for all the users.
