[THIN] Re: XenServer Slowdown

  • From: "Joe Shonk" <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:50:14 -0700

What does you disk i/o look like with 45-50 users?

 

Joe

 

From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of James Scanlon
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 10:29 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: XenServer Slowdown

 

the xenapp servers are all physical machines. no xenserver involved.

The servers themselves have 146GB Mirrored SAS

Network is dual 1GB Physical NICS teamed with HP software

The ZDC is a virtual on vmware........?

Its 4 Physical servers all having exactly the same issues..... :(

 

Very much appreciate any further input!!!

Thank you for your reply :)

 

James

 

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Joe Shonk
Sent: 13 December 2010 17:22
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: XenServer Slowdown

Hello,

 

What version of XenServer are you running and how many VMs?  Did you select
the Optimize for XenApp under each VM?  What does you disk subsystem and
network look like?

 

Joe

 

From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of James Scanlon
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 2:54 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: XenServer Slowdown

 

Everyone,

 

After the applicaiton of all the below listed hotfixes and a number of other
MS hotfixes related to terminal services

we are still in a position of grief with these servers.

 

We are no longer experiencing a slow down or crash over time more what we
would call a significant slow down for the amount of users vs hardware on
the servers.

 

 

DL380 G6, 36GB of Physical Ram (34 available to windows)

Dual Intel Xeon 2.8, 16 Cores, x5560

Windows 2008 SP2

 

Problem

We are seeing server instability around 50 users, 45 seems to be the limit.

With servers of such huge specs does any list legend have any further ideas
what we could be doing wrong?

 

 

Any suggesitons would be very much appreciated!!!!!

Thank s in advance for any assistance or even reading this 

 

Cheers

James

 

OTHER INFO

 

Could it be BIOS settings?

 

Intel hyperthreading options - enabled
intel Virtualisation technology - enabled
no execute memory protection (dep) - on
Intel vt-d - enabled
Intel turbo boost technology - enabled
processor core disable - no

 

Performance Stats


#users

         logon time(seconds)

        

        


20

25

        


40

78

        


48

 Error: server busy processing another logon.

                                                        

50

56

  5s to launch word(1st time) - 2s 2nd time

                                                

60

75

  7.5s to launch word (1st time) - 4.3 2nd time

                                                

70

255

  11s to launch word (1st time) - 5s 2nd time

Lost graphics

RDP logon = 75s.

        

All users logged off. 1st user logon = back to 25s

                                                                

 

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of James Scanlon
Sent: 18 November 2010 13:32
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: XenServer Slowdown

Right - further info

 

Quite a few of the below are not applied - have an action task to review all
and install requried and test after each one... thanks again Carl

 

looking into ctx hotfixes but seems we have x64_FR3_Enabled applied to
all... (is there something similar for windows 2003 32bit server in the same
farm?)

 

thanks again everyone

 

James

 

 

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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Carl Stalhood
Sent: 17 November 2010 19:07
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: XenServer Slowdown

There are a ton of hotfixes for Windows 2008 64-bit post SP2. Here's my
collection. All of these are related to TS in some way. Some of them
directly fix performance problems.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/983533  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2028453  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2028484  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2059743  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2065362  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2213578  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2231728  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2251177  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2261826  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2272153  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2281477  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2300745  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2414013  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2444213  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949538  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955365  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956438  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958089  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958596  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/960568  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967113  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967933  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968074  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968358  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968930  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968967  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/968995  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969290  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969837  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969851  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969940  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969972  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970603  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970689  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970840  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970910  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970911  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970964  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971253  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971271  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971338  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971347  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971370  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971427  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971438  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971589  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972495  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972596  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972600  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972904  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973062  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973521  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973554  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/973744  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974103  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974195  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974266  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974825  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975848  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976036  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976038  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976110  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976520  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976538  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976674  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977225  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977263  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977269  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977389  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977401  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977541  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977585  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977611  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977675  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977686  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978042  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978829  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/978927  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979241  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979425  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979548  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979557  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/980248  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/980356  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/980380  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/980568  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/980663  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/980945  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981062  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981369  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981462  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981500  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981704  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981891  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981964  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982051  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982303  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982334  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982416  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982606  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/982931  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/983237  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/983385  

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/983458   

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/983533 

 

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:27 AM, James Scanlon
<James.Scanlon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We are having speed issues with out XenServers

Brand New builds

Deployed with Altiris

Xenserver 5.0

Windows 2008 Standard 64bit

 

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