For once this isn't a technical post - it has to be close to the only one in this blog! I just like to be proved right every now and then ...

I'll set up the situation for you - I was running ESXi3.0 on a dual CPU server with 4Gb of RAM and all of the other kit that you normally associate with server grade equipment. I wanted to run SQL server 2000 and a linux LTSP on the machine. I created a Linux server on a vm and built the LTSP but I found that once I had loaded more than about 12 clients onto the machine the system started performing like a dog. I found this suprising as I had a similar machine (albeit 2 years older) running an identical version of LTSP which could happily handle more than 20 connections.

I subsequently rebuilt the machine bare metal and am currently running a straight SQL server on it and I was pretty sure that the problem was related to loading up a vmware server, but in the back of my mind I had a doubt. Today I found an article which seems to confirm my suspicions and gives me greater confidence in my abilities. The article YippieMove switches from VMware to FreeBSD Jails details another person's fight.

It's good to be right (although it could still have been an incorrect config ....)

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