Malaysia VMware Communities » windows 2003 http://malaysiavm.com/blog Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:50:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 New experience on vCenter 4 http://malaysiavm.com/blog/new-experience-on-vcenter-4/ http://malaysiavm.com/blog/new-experience-on-vcenter-4/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 16:22:58 +0000 craig http://malaysiavm.com/blog/?p=1307 I just got the official release of vSphere 4 today and finally got it work on my test lab. 1st thing before I upgraded my ESX servers is I need to upgrade my vCenter. If you are running RC now, you may not able to manage the official release vSphere 4 host by RC version of vCenter you had. I reinstall fresh for my vCenter 4 on Windows 2003. Since is a test lab, I do not build the DB on SQL Server as I did for production. I am using the default sql express as part of the installation.The installation process will not be much different compare to RC, but the resource utilization of the vCenter 4 will make the different.

I notice that the memory utilization for vCenter 4 is very high even I run it on Windows 2003 Server. The highest memory utilization of the vCenter is not SQL or anything, but is Tomcat. Can you believe that the Tomcat will take up to 1.3GB of physical memory show in the task manager? This had given myself a signal that I may need to increase the memory I had on the production virtual center server I have before I may consider a final upgrade to vCenter 4 for production purpose.

]]> http://malaysiavm.com/blog/new-experience-on-vcenter-4/feed/ 1 Slow performance on vCenter 4 http://malaysiavm.com/blog/slow-performance-on-vcenter-4/ http://malaysiavm.com/blog/slow-performance-on-vcenter-4/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 15:49:07 +0000 craig http://malaysiavm.com/blog/?p=1281 As vSphere is on the way, many of you may had experienced to test the RC release now. 1 of the thing you may notice is about the performance on vCenter 4 which bundle as part of the vSphere infrastructure in the coming release. I had personally compared the system performance within vCenter 2.5 and 4, and I found the vcenter 4 will require more resource to satisfy the system to run smoothly. The resource require to run the SQL server will not make any big different in this case, but you will notice the tomcat process in the task manager will take up quite a number of resources from your vCenter server.


To improve the performance of your vCenter, you may need to consider to increase the physical memory on it, or you may also consider to disable the virtual center web management services from services.msc prompt in Microsoft windows. I had my vCenter running on Windows 2003 and Windows 2008, and I do experience the similar performance issues. As my scenario, I can manage my environment without web management, therefore I had decided to disable the services and save the physical memory from the server for other purpose.

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