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VMWare Server hits a wall.

Posted May 19th, 2009 by chris

System:

Supermicro 6015P-8RB
Super Micro Low-Profile All-in-One Zero Channel RAID Card
1x Intel Xeon L5320 1.86GHz Quad-Core
4X 4GB FB-DIMM DDR2-667
4x 146.8GB Cheetah ST3146855LC 15K Ultra 320 SCSI SCA 80 Pin in RAID-10
Windows Server 2003 X64 running VMWare Server 2.0
Running 12-16 Ubuntu/Redhat/FreeBSD/W2K3 instances

Problem: Adding additional instances make the server literally hit the wall for disk access. CPU and [...]

Filed under:Fail, System Architecture