I'd be interested in the specific hardware (and APPS.) you're using because VMware ESX seems to behave so differently on varying hardware. In any event, we're working with a group that has managed to get an IBM x440 eServer 8-way to handle about 25 slices of W2KAS (18 of them being MetaXP). They've seen decent utilization with varying percentages of processor allocation but averaging about 45 users per slice. We're investigating the performance ourselves with oracle based applications (PeopleSoft etc..), but haven't quite managed to get our hands on the IBM beast with the 64MB of L4 cache!!! (I don't get any kickbacks from BigBlue) ____________________________________ R. Mark Robinson Systems Support Specialist Georgia Institute of Technology OIT - Enterprise Information Systems 404.894.9946 ____________________________________ "Look for solutions, not problems. Anyone can identify problems." -----Original Message----- From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Chris Fraser Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 1:50 PM To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [THIN] Metaframe XP and Vmware ESX Hi there all, Anyone running Metaframe Xpe under Vmware ESX 1.52? Care to comment on = your performance? I have an issue where our Win2k sp3/MF Xpe FR2 virtual machine will only = get about half the users per processor compared to running 'on the iron'. = Even with 1-2 users on the system, CPU use is still very high (50-70%) I have done all the tuning described in the Vmware knowledge base and applied the post FR2 hotfix for Vmware. Thanks ----- Chris Fraser, ThinApse Corporation http://www.thinapse.com 604 638 8456 chrisfraser@xxxxxxxxxx ******************************************************** This Week's Sponsor - ThinPrint Simply the best print solution for Microsoft Terminal Services and Citrix Metaframe. http://www.thinprint.com/ ********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm ******************************************************** This Week's Sponsor - ThinPrint Simply the best print solution for Microsoft Terminal Services and Citrix Metaframe. http://www.thinprint.com/ ********************************************************** For Archives, to Unsubscribe, Subscribe or set Digest or Vacation mode use the below link: http://thethin.net/citrixlist.cfm