Re: Problems with Debian 6.0.3 and ESXi5.0
> I got a serious problem with a Debian install on an ESXi 5.0 Server.
> Debian installs fine and seems to run fine, but the harddisk performance is
> really low.
> I got latency times of about 44 seconds, tested with bonnie++.
>
> What I´ve done:
> - New machine in ESXi, harddisk controller "LSI Parallel" (Debian uses the
> LSI53c1030 driver (mptlinux v 3.04.12))
> - hdparm -i /dev/sda says:
> /dev/sda
> SG_IO bad / missing sense data.
>
> The latest drivers from LSI are 4.28. I don´t know if it is a driver problem
> oder VMWare Problem.
> I also did a new install with harddisk controller setting "LSI SAS", but no
> performance improvement.
>
> The VMWare ESXi Server should be alright, because a SLES11 Instance that
> runs on the same machine and same datastore performs well.
> LSI provides new drivers (v 4.28) but RHEL/SLES only and a conversion via
> alien and later install of the deb-File brought no change.
>
> Anyone got a clue how to get this running?
Have you installed vmware tools?
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