Add to My Yahoo! | Google Reader or Homepage | Add to Windows Live | Add to Windows Live Alerts

Wictor Wilén

Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) - SharePoint 2010 | Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) - SharePoint Server MVP | Author

Optimize Virtual Server hard disks

Posted at 2006-08-15 06:47 by Wictor Wilén in Windows XP , Virtual Server with 2 comments.

Here is a tip and some help for you out there who are using Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 for optimizing the hard disk of the virtual machines.

Virtual Server 2005 configuration

First of all make sure that you hard disks are fixed size, that means that they don't have to expand during runtime.

Then take advantage of the Virtual SCSI adapters, when the Virtual Machine Add-Ons are installed on the virtual server you will have a significant performance increase of up to 20 %.

This is how you change your IDE disks into SCSI ones:

  1. Shut down the Virtual Server
  2. Add a SCSI adapter to your Virtual Server
  3. Start the server and uninstall the Virtual Machine Add-ons
  4. Restart the server and install the Virtual Machine Add-ons (to be sure that the accelerated SCSI drivers are installed)
  5. Shut down the server
  6. Move the hard disk(s) from the IDE interface to the SCSI interface
  7. Start the server and you are done!

 

Comments and trackbacks

#  Optimize Virtual Server hard disks, part II by Trackback
Screenshot from websnpr This is a follow up post to my last about optimizing the Microsoft Virtual Server hard disks. If y
#  Hosted Virtual Desktop by Hosted Virtual Desktop
Screenshot from websnpr That's great, I never thought about Optimize Virtual Server hard disks like that before.
Make a comment on this post:
Subject:  

Your name:  
Your Url:  
Note: submissions may have to be approved before being visible, so don't submit your comment multiple times.