It’s been about a month and our new virtual servers are running great. In fact, we anticipate that we can probably double the amount of virtual servers on the host system. We are very encouraged. We are begining to start performance tuning as some of the machines have slight lags while working in terminal services. However, it doesn’t seem to affect overall web server performance. Our monitoring logs show a substantial reduction in HTTP latency as compared to their physical counterparts. Our performancing tuning plans include enabling SpanningTree fast on the switch ports (helps increase recovery time if a port fails), upgrading the virtual NIC to the newer vmxnet virtual NIC, and by reviewing the HOST NIC’s and HDD to enable/disable recommened settings. Overall, we are pleased with the rsults so far and are beining to plan additional virtualization deployments.
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