I'm new to VMWare and work for a public school district. We were looking for a cheaper alternative to host some of our xserve's in a vm environment. I have an Xserve 3,1 with 48GB of RAM and 2 CPUs at 2.93 GHz. We built a 96TB NAS running OpenFiler. We have the Xserve connected through an Intel 10GB NIC running through a Dell 10GB switch. I have the NAS configured with 2 - 32TB volume groups that I create 2TB LUN's from for different storage purposes. The issue I'm having is when I create a new VM of a Mac OS X 10.7, it takes about 5+ hours to create the VM. In the events when the process gets to about 10%, I start seeing messages in the events tab stating that the Device performance has deteriorated. I/O latency increased from average... Just wondering if anyone out there is running a similar config and if you've experienced similar issues. I've researched the error messages and tried some configuration changes without success or increase in performance. Any suggestions or help would be much appreciated.
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