Fwd: Re: Problems with Debian 6.0.3 and ESXi5.0

[Florian Götz <f.goetz@hs-mannheim.de>]

@James Robertson
Yes, VMWare Tools of ESXi5 are installed. I thought they might get me a
newer LSI driver (because LSI is the standard of ESXi).

@Stan Hoeppner
I will give the PVSCSI a try. I´ll let you know if it solved the problem
(i really hope....)

@Stan Winnet
I installed Debian from the netinstall image from debian.org.
I first thought it might be a problem because of additional software,
but a second stock install behaves the same way.
We have several Debian machines running in ESX and ESXi, but this one
got a high-load database software. The other ones haven´t got high loads
so the problem did not show up. No one discovered the slow HDD
performance till now ;)





Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Florian Götz




Am 19.01.2012 01:37, schrieb James Robertson:
> >  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?