VaemonGuy,
I have a server, ASUS P9X79, 3930k, 64gb DDR3-1600, 2x256GB OCZ Vector (RAID 0, 1000MB/s), 4x2TB WD RE-4 (RAID 10, 400MB/s), Radeon HD7850 2GB that i built to host 10 Windows 7 x64 VMs.
Everything was working well for a while, but i'm it seems that the host and guests are stuttering/freezing now.
Since you have a similar system, and run "several" vms, i was wondering if you've seen this behavior before, and if you know of any possible fixes?
Things run decently, with what seems like a .5 second delay when i have 8-9 vms on, and when i start the 10th, it freezes up. If i force kill the vmx process for the VM, performance resumes.
Weird thing is that i've previously stress tested (intel burnin, hyper pi) all 10 vms at once without any issue.
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Host is Windows 7 Pro x64, VMware Workstation 8
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-Page file disabled.
-priority.ungrabbed set to high.
Things i've tried (on all VMs):
-setting CPU affinity to all cores except first two (so the host has 2 cores to work with)
-setting to use only one core
-disabling independent/persistent HDD
Should i try disabling VT-d?
I welcome any advice you or any other member may have.
Thanks!