By pinning your CPU's does this cause a problem with VMotion? _____ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Shonk Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 10:59 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Citrix and VMWare You do want to tweak your McAfee settings as much as possible. Especially if you are using PVS. The other thing we are finding is we are getting better performance by pinning VMs to CPUs. Not sure if this is a NUMA issue or a problem with the scheduler. Joe From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Minero, Hector B CIV NSWCDD, K55 Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 8:58 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Citrix and VMWare We've set up all VMs with 2 CPUs and 4GB RAM. We are not overcommitting our CPU cores. However, we still get 100% CPU for extended periods of time. Internet Explorer 8 seems to be using most of that CPU. MacAfee AV also seems to be going up and down on CPU usage. Any clues? _______________________________ Hector Minero NSWCDD K55 Ph:(540)653-8859 _____ From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matt Kosht Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 9:04 AM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Re: Citrix and VMWare PAE actually makes term server run poorly with most application sets. I would definitely recommend disabling it. http://community.citrix.com/display/ocb/2008/08/04/PAE+This%21%21%21+Optimiz ing+XenApp Best 32 bit/W2K3R2 setup I have found is 2vCPU/4GB RAM for each VM. Make sure you don't overuse cores. there shouldn't be anymore vCPU's than cores on your physical server. Memory shouldn't be overcommitted either (I reserve 2GB RAM for XenServer). On a 24GB Dual Quad (not Nehalem) blade I comfortably get (4) Citrix server VM's with the config above. -Matt On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Foster, Bill <Bill.Foster@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: We are running PS 4.0 on XenServer 5.5 update2 using Provisioning server as the deployment method(caching on local disk). 2 vCPU's 8 gb ram with PAE turned on. Getting a 3-1 consolidation of this config. Our apps are memory starved and not CPU. Bill Foster Sr Systems Engineer, IT Wellcare Health Plans, Inc. 8735 Henderson Road Tampa, FL 33634 Ren1, First Floor 813-206-1158 Bill.Foster@xxxxxxxxxxxx From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Minero, Hector B CIV NSWCDD, K55 Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 12:30 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Citrix and VMWare Hi all, does anyone have any guidelines for Citrix VM servers on ESX 4.0? I currently have 5 Windows 2003 R2 PS 4.5 servers on ESX 4.0. They are assigned 1 virtual CPU and 2GB of Memory. They're all spiking up to 100%CPU for extended periods of time with about 15 users each. Should I have 2 CPUs or 4? Any other advice would help. Thanks, _______________________________ Hector Minero Privacy Notice: This electronic mail message, and any attachments, are confidential and are intended for the exclusive use of the addressee(s) and may contain information that is proprietary and that may be Individually Identifiable or Protected Health Information under HIPAA. If you are not the intended recipient, please immediately contact the sender by telephone, or by email, and destroy all copies of this message. If you are a regular recipient of our electronic mail, please notify us promptly if you change your email address.