On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Stephen <sdw2 at shineonline.co.nz> wrote: > Hi All, > > I was hoping to run a Windows 2003 server in production on Centos 5.2 > however the performance isn't very good. > > The host is Centos 5.2 64 bit. I did some file transfers and I'm seeing > about 12Mb/s on a Windows 2003 VM and about 8Mb/s on a Windows 2003 32 bit > VM. Numbers are measured using the builtin Windows 2003 server networking > monitor (Press Ctrl Alt Del in Windows and go to the Windows tab). > > The server is an IBM xServe about a year old and the VMs are running in LVM > partitions. Switches are Cisco Gigabit. So the hardware for server > performance and network performance are not a limiting factor - I understand > that the results I'm seeing are typical without running paravirtualized > drivers in Windows. > > Just wanted to ask what the options are to get things going faster. I > believe the choices are:- > - Pay the dollars for a RedHat subscription which includes paravitualized > drives for Windows > - Install the LGPL PV drivers (don't want to do this, these are production > machines and even up to a few months ago I'm seeing reports of VM corruption > in the list. It would appear that the LGPL PV drivers are not at production > standard yet) > - Pay for an alternative Xen distribution, such as Xen's commercial > product. > > Can someone confirm, have I covered all the bases? > I have heard of one other option: Halsign TurboGate Tools http://www.halsign.com/ I haven't tried them personally, but I have seen them announced on the Xen mailing lists. Todd -- Todd Deshane http://todddeshane.net check out our book: http://runningxen.com