<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">On Apr 10, 2010, at 12:33 PM, "Roland Roland" <<a href="mailto:R_O_L_A_N_D@hotmail.com">R_O_L_A_N_D@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<div><font face="Calibri">Hi all,</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Calibri">I've inherited from a previous It personnel a centos
server which works as a fileserver and at the same time has one Vmware (windows
xp) working on it.</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">due to file server data load, the windows xp services
get unreachable until the data transfer from the fileserver itself slows
down..</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">the NIC max out its transfer speed..</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">the same server has two * 1 GB nics</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">one is currently being used..</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">my question is this:</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Calibri">is there a way to make the afp/smb services work only
one ONE nic..</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">in other words users accessing the shared files from a
specific NIC..</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">that way I can divide the load. file transfers goes from
one NIC and windows services gets reached from the other..(different
IPs)</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri">doo all this make any sense? is there any other way of
solving this (other than moving the VM elsewhere) ?</font></div>
<div><font face="Calibri"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Calibri">thanks in advance for yoru help </font></div></div></blockquote><br><div>At the same time make sure the VM's vmdk file isn't on the same disks as the file data or you will have the VM starve for IO while the file data is being written/read.</div><div><br></div><div>-Ross</div><div><br></div></body></html>