While I still have a couple hosts running VMWare Server 2.0.2 on CentOS 5.x, I've given up that ship. I think you're walking on thin ice running VMWare Server 2 on just about anything these days, especially Windoze. I doubt you'll find much help solving any problems with Server 2, given that VMWare has dropped it as I expect most users have also by now.

I highly recommend running Proxmox VE as a virtualization host platform. It's similar to VMware Server in many ways, but I've found it even easier to use. While it requires a cpu that supports virtualization, that's not so hard to find these days.

We're beginning to document the process of building a Tagcose server based on PVE. See http://tagcose.com for details. We meet monthly at UAT (2nd Sat) to work on Tagcose development. You're welcome to join us if you'd like.

--
-Eric 'shubes'

On 10/28/2012 01:13 PM, George Toft wrote:

Continuing saga . . .
SMB and FTP from another physical to this virtual run at full speed.
SMB from every Win7 box except this one runs at full speed.  The
communications bog down only for SMB/FTP on the physical host to the
VM.  Next step is to build a dedicated VMware host.  I probably should
have done that to begin with, but was trying to cut down on the number
of physical systems running.

Regards,

George Toft

On 10/28/2012 7:13 AM, Michael Havens wrote:

thanks for the update!
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 10:07 PM, George Toft <george@georgetoft.com

<mailto:george@georgetoft.com>> wrote:

    Further investigation shows it's not FTP nor samba.  It's Windows
    7 (which I used for Windows file and FTP).  Using smbclient on a
    Linux box I get 19MB/sec and FTP from Linux I get 32MB/sec.
     Concurrent with replacing the old file server was the purchase of
    a new PC.  I guess we know what XP does better than Windows 7.

    Regards,

    George Toft

    On 10/27/2012 6:01 PM, George Toft wrote:

        Spent several hours researching this one - can't find a
        solution.  I hope someone here can hit me with a clue-by-four.

        CentOS 6.3 64-bit virtual running under VMware 2.0.2 fresh
        install with FTP/Samba/NFS running.  I copied 500+GB of data
        from the old computer to the new one using NFS at full network
        speed (11+ MB/sec).  Life's good.

        Now here it is a day later, and my samba write speed is a
        blazing 80KB/sec (up from 40KB/s when I started
        troubleshooting).  I read samba should approach FTP speed and
        I verified it does - FTP writes to the new machine at about
        the same speed.  Reads still take place a full speed (now it's
        on a 1Gbps network) - 33MB/sec. Writes . . . 99.8% slower.  I
        did not have this problem on the previous samba server (CentOS
        4.8 32-bit).

        I added memory (it now has 1GB RAM, 1 GB swap) and it has 2
        CPU's. This had no effect.

        In summary, NFS works at full speed both ways.  Samba/FTP are
        fast on reads but snail slow on writes.

        My next thought is to install ClearOS, test it, and copy their
        smb.conf.  Or install CentOS 5.x and see if it has the same
        problems.

        Any ideas where to look on this one?  smb.conf necessary.


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