all my (virtual)servers are built with SCSI drives.


"Richard Cardona" <Search.Archives@example.com> wrote in message
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> Andy C wrote:
>> Yah, well i have a very fast machine with Raid 5 and I was only runing
>> one virtual machine on one server and 2 on the other. I have the same
>> exact set up at another location running VMware and I have no issues.
>> These installations are basically exact copys except for one is using
>> vmware and the other is using Virtual Server. Any ideas?
>
> Are you using virtual IDE or SCSI for your virtual hard disks? The disk
> IO performance (and IO stack) is more efficient with SCSI.
>
> I would add a virtual SCSI adapter and a blank VHD on a LUN and let
> Windows discover this virtual SCSI adapter via Plug-n-Play. Once the SCSI
> driver is enabled in the image, it becomes bootable as a virtual SCSI
> disk.
>
> Move your VHDs from the virtual IDE channel to the virtual SCSI adapter on
> SCSI0:0 and retry your tests.