Enterprise Vault 8.0 and VMWare ESX 3.5
Created: 03 Mar 2009 | 2 comments
We just configured EV8.0 on vmware esx 3.5
We noticed that manual archiving and the journaling are working extremely slow. There are no errors in the Symantec Enterprise Vault event log, but it still is unrealistically slow.
I know that virtualization is slower than a stand-alone pc running EV but documentation shows instead of a approximately 25,000 items per hour on stand-alone server, vmware gets approximately 18,000 items per hour. But this is more like it taking 10 minutes to archive 4 items in the journal mailbox.
Has anyone else seen this type of response from a Vault server configured on a virtual server?
the page file has been moved off the system drive and the Windows temp file as well.
Judy Glazier
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Hello Judy,
We're running virtualized, and I am getting a good 10.000 / 15.000 per hour archiving on journal.
We've been setup as follows: (not done myself, other team)
ESX3.5 Not too sure about the underlying hardware.
VM has 2 processors (2.6Ghz I believe)
VM has 1.5 GB Ram
VM has c-drive (system) (16 GB)
VM has d-drive (pagefile and msmq) (40 GB)
VM has E-drive (on SAN so fysical hardware) for index (250 GB)
VM has F-drive (on SAN so fysical hardware) for Store. (1000 GB) mbx server has F-drive of 350 GB, we use 2nd line storage
If you use virtual disks, are they created using the full space, or are they ' expand on demand'? That might slow it down?
Not sure what else to check, but I am very pleased with the VM-environment. I believe it performs better than I hoped.
Gertjan
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Question for Gertjan
While I'm new to EV, I have some experience with VMware and was wondering if any of the VM drives are Raw Disk Mapped to the SAN?
For applications that with high disk I/O that would provide better performance that standard .vmdk's.
Ted
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