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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