RHEL4 running on VMWare ESX 2.5.2

[Finnur Örn Guðmundsson - TM Software Skyggnir <fog t is>]

Hi,

We recently started running 2x IBM X445 (dual xeon/16gb ram) machines on VMWare. I wanted to run a few virtual linux machines from there due to testing and other stuff ....

I installed RHEL4 U1 on around 4 machines. The performance is awwwwfuuull! ;).....I did install the VMWare tools but the performance didnt really get any better ...IO is just saaaad on those boxes :O....I've been running tomcat for a webapplication there and the load is around 1.5-2 without any cpu and the machine acts extremly sluggish doing simple operation ...kinda like it does not have DMA enabled to the harddrives :O (Just to note ...Windows runs fine on those bricks).

Has anyone any experience of running RHEL4 (or any 2.6 kernel based distro) on VMWare ESX? I cant seem to find anything about this problem on Google ....


Kær kveðja / Best regards,
Finnur Ö. Guðmundsson
RHCE, Linux+, MCP
System Engineer - System Operations 
fog t is

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