VMWare Converter uses a protocol called NFC for the cloning process. To increase security, encryption was introduced with Converter 5.0 for the data transfer. Unfortunately this comes at the expense of performance. If you do not need this security feature, it is possible to improve the speed and performance of your conversions dramatically. To achieve […]
Ok so you took the plunge and are running some version of VMware. Now you want to squeeze every bit of performance out of your hardware possible. In a previous post we went over changing your scsi controller to a para virtual adaptor fit hat is optimized for vm performance. Next up your network adaptor! […]
Why would I want to do this? well para virtual scsi controllers do not require as much system resources from the host to run and therefore give you better performance. woohoo how do we do this? http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1002149 1. While the VM is running, add a new disk with SCSI ID 1:0 (or 2:0 if 1:x already exists) […]
