Testing has shown i am better off in my case respecting the physical server configuration.
Most common host config is probably like ours, half height blade. 2 sockets , some cores. In this case 12 cores. 512GB of memory and Intel processors (v2)
Test was restoring a 300GB database with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 on Windows Server 2012 R2 (both enterprise editions). 112GB of memory.
Test 1, time to restore was 1 hour 12 minutes. Throughput was 52 MB/sec . Config was 12 sockets 1 core. This was bad!
Test 2, time to restore was 9 minutes 50 seconds. Throughput was 334 MB/sec . Config was 1 socket 12 cores. This was great. Over 600% I/O performance improvement and a great time reduction.
Test 3, time to restore was 9 minutes 59 seconds. Throughput was 330 MB/sec. Config was 2 sockets and 6 cores. Still great.
Only change as was the socket and core configuration. VM was of course brought down for each configuration change.
So not configuring the socket count on the VM higher than the physical host in this case resulted in a fantastic performance improvement.
Run your own load tests with your application to determine the best configuration for you.
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Re: Increasing Virtual Sockets or Virtual Cores !
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Re: DataStore housekeeping
That is a good idea!
It's not in the current version of the script, but it shouldn't be too hard to add that functionality.
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Re: ESXi inside KVM
I wrote a blog post with step-by-step directions for getting this to work. Note that the latest QEMU doesn't need the patch anymore, as they've added a "-machine vmport=off" option.
These directions specifically cover setting up ESXi in a guest managed by libvirt / virt-manager. Hope it helps.
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Guest customization fails - doesn't rename vm or reboot
I am having issues with Windows 7 vm refusing to customize, I even created a new vm OS = Windows 7 x64 Enterprise, fresh install latest vmware tools,
After I deploy the vm it powers up and autologs in the first time but fails to rename the vm and reboot to join the domain. The account I'm using is a local admin on the vm and has rights to add computers to the domain.
I created a Win8.1 vm today the same way and it works as expected.
Any idea's on wher to start looking?
this is the Script to join, but it never gets that far,
if "%1%" == "precustomization" (goto end)
else if "%1%" == "postcustomization" (net dom join %COMPUTERNAME% /domain:domain.local /userd:qaserv@domain.local /passwordd:********* /reboot)
:end
This is the tail of the log,
[2015-11-20T16:30:18: : DEBUG] Successfully executed command C:\windows\system32\sysprep\sysprep.exe /quiet /generalize /oobe /reboot /unattend:C:\sysprep\sysprep.xml
[2015-11-20T16:30:18: SysprepCustomizationFlow: INFO] Sysprep flow completed
[2015-11-20T16:30:18: ExtendedWinCustomizationLogic: INFO] Extended customization flow completed
[2015-11-20T16:30:18: : INFO] GuestCustUtil exiting.
ToollsDeploy log,
Ran DeployPkg_DeployPackageFromFile successfully
VSphere 5.5 with latest updates.
I don't know which version of Director.
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Re: Windows 10, Workstation 10, no LAN bridge
Wow I can't believe there's no fix for this yet.
I had this issue last month, and didn't want to do manually work arounds that weren't a permanent solution, so I reverted my Windows 10 upgrade back to 8.1
I'm wanting to upgrade back to 10 now and checked this thread and was sad to see there's been no progress by VMWare :/
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Having a problem in upgrading to windows 10 on my Imac.
Just upgraded to 10.11.1 on my Imac.
Upgrade to Fusion 8.0.2
When I try to upgrade to Windows 10 on the windows side of my IMac, windos says there is a VMware SVGA 3D compatibility issue.
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Re: Cleared my VDCA55 exam
sicnarf_latosa@sicnarf_latosa
You can ping him on Twitter (@sostech_wp) or on his site (sostechblog.com)
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horizon view location based printing
what doe location based printing do? I have users in remote offices that already has local office printers mapped to their desktops? IF they connect to their view desktops, thinprint already maps those printers into the horizon desktops. why do i need location based printing?
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Re: Horizon Client on Surface Pro 3
Version 3.6? Do you have a link to that?
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Great Initiative
As a VMware Admin/Consultant/Architect - I heard this question many times "Do you have any Script for Daily VMware Health Check?"
I used to share VMware Powershell script or vCheck from alanrenouf but some times it used to take long time (I'm not good in scripting ) but now I got a chance to speak with Engineer to understand it more
Thanks Corey Romero for your Invitation.
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problems scheduling vcxn610 in vue
Hi pals, when i log on in vue i see the pre-approved exam, i then go to the centers, select one center (i tried the two available in my country Spain) and then all dates appear as no available , then, when i try to go back/forward or change the month, the program always crashes. i changed the browser (mozilla/explorer/chrome)
I tried for 4 days now and i talked with vue support and i got nothing as a response, try tomorrow, blablabla.
Any help?
Thanx a lot.
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Re: Do I need to do the qualifying course for certifying vSphere6 ?
It seems to be VCP-NV will get retired by this Nov 2015, then what is the point of taking this certification..?
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is there any way to reset virtual usb com port numbers?
i've connected up to 25 radios to my win7 image over the years and now when fusion detects a new usb connection it assigns numbers in the 20's heading towards 30
i'm concerned because a lot of radio software i use is old and some of the worst of it doesn't even recognize com ports higher than com4
so far i've tried deleting all the virtual networks that accumulate in mac osx system/prefs/network. i've also tried resetting the usb hub controller in fusion.
does anyone know how to reset the counter? is it even possible? i apologize i haven't searched through this entire forum on the off chance someone else has asked--i doubt very many folks connect this many com devices. i did do a fairly comprehensive google search, but my queries just had too many words to be very targeted.
thanks! /guy
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Re: Automation of Windows Updates for Templates
J Kolekes. Very nice script. The only major problem that I am facing is that the Invoke-VMScript -ScriptType PowerShell -ScriptText "Get-WUInstall –WindowsUpdate –AcceptAll –AutoReboot" -VM MyTemplate -GuestCredential $Cred | Out-file -Filepath C:\WUResults.log -Append
keeps throwing an error. I have investigated in depth and still can't figure why it doesn't work. If you can assist that would be fine. The rest of the script runs excellent!
Much Thanks!!!
James
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Re: Having a problem in upgrading to windows 10 on my Imac.
Welcome to Fusion community.
Could you give me some details about your upgrade?
Which operation system you try to upgrade to Windows 10? Did you try to upgrade your vmtools to the latest version?
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esxcli network connection list "Connect to localhost failed: Connection failure"
Getting the below error message when execute the network connection list command in my Host ESXi5.5
# esxcli network connection list
Connect to localhost failed: Connection failure
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Not only this command, couldn't run any command in my Host machine. Even I couldn't connect it with vSphere client
/vmfs/volumes # vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms
Failed to login: Connection refused
/vmfs/volumes #
vSphere client Connect Output :
Please someone give input on this , how we can resolve it.
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exporting vmdk
Hi, we have an existing vmware setup. I just like to know how do you export out of the datastore the vmdk or image file of one of the servers? My objective is to use this as a testing environment on a different machine.
Thanks
Jeff
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Re: exporting vmdk
Hi Jeff,
If you need just the .vmdk, simply browse the datastore and download the file to your PC. If you need the whole VM, then you may want to export it as a OVF template from vCenter.
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Re: esxcli network connection list "Connect to localhost failed: Connection failure"
Try to restart the hostd daemon, which is responsible for ESXi remote management.
/etc/init.d/hostd restart
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Re: Processor cores requirement to host VMWare ESXi 6
Hi Vijay, when creating VMs in vSphere it's recommended to use "virtual sockets" and leave "cores per socket" as 1. So if you want to allocate 2 vCPUs per VM, make sure to set virtual sockets to 2 and cores per socket to 1.
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