I have seen this problem on may hardware combinations:
When I copy large (> 5GB) Virtual Machine images from one disk to another on
a Windows Server 2003 machine (x64 with 4GB RAM), the machine will get into
serious performance problems. Remote desktop hangs and / or gets extremely
sluggish. Virtual machines running is not responding etc. Ping responds ok
during the copy. In performance monitor, I can see that Pages / sec is going
over the roof.
Re: File copy operations and server performance problems? ... Did you do any defragment on the virtual file or the hdd? ... same physical disk which is holding the OS partition. ... When I copy large Virtual Machine images from one disk to another on a Windows Server 2003 machine, the machine will get into serious performance problems.... (microsoft.public.windows.server.general)
Re: File copy operations and server performance problems? ... Why should a disk to disk copy cause paging I/O to a third disk? ... When I copy large Virtual Machine images from one disk to another on a Windows Server 2003 machine, the machine will get into serious performance problems.... (microsoft.public.windows.server.general)
Re: File copy operations and server performance problems? ... another physical hard disk... ... When I copy large Virtual Machine images from one disk to another on a Windows Server 2003 machine, the machine will get into serious performance problems.... (microsoft.public.windows.server.general)
AD system state backup on Windows 2008, disk size increasing ... I've been working lately with Windows Server 2008 RTM version, and I promoted one server (virtual machine) as a DC. ... That backup storage is made on a seconday disk on the DC, but I found out that the system state backup catalog it's getting real big in a few weeks, meaning that the VM disk is increasing as well. ... (microsoft.public.windows.server.general)
AD system state backup on Windows 2008, disk size increasing ... I've been working lately with Windows Server 2008 RTM version, and I promoted one server (virtual machine) as a DC. ... That backup storage is made on a seconday disk on the DC, but I found out that the system state backup catalog it's getting real big in a few weeks, meaning that the VM disk is increasing as well. ... (microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory)
