On 2/5/2010 12:25 PM, Michael Dross wrote: > I have recently installed ESXi4 on a new HP DL380 G6 with 12GB of memory. > I am running CentOS 5.4 and CentOS 4.8. A few things I have learned. > > First, for best I/O performance you should use the Vmware Paravirtualized > storage controller driver. It's a little bit of a hassle setting it up. > You just have to remake the initrd file. This will give about 10% better > disk I/O than using the other emulated controllers. Does this happen by itself if you've installed vmware tools in the guest and then get a kernel update that triggers an initrd rebuild or do you have to do something to specify the right module to include? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com