Hi.
I've got two identical host machines - HP DL360 with dual XEON CPUs, 8GB RAM. Running GSX 3.something.
Frequently, periodically, I get VMs that appear to lag terribly on network traffic.
Host OS is SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8. Guests are Win2003 Server Std, Win2k Server, and Libranet(debian) Linux (although I don't recall if this happens to the Linux VMs).
I'll have a few ssh windows open to the host, and from there I'll have continuous pings running to each of the VMs (for troubleshooting this problem).
I'll see normal sub1 ms times, and then suddenly I'll get no reponses. Several seconds will pass, and then suddenly I'll get a flood of responses with absurdley high times - 10000ms to 35000ms (10-35sec). Then it will go back to normal.
When this happens to one VM, the other VMs are usually happily replying at .whatever ms. And watching the host OS, I see it (the host) is just loafing along - no real load.
I'm using bridged networking and static IPs on the guest OSs.
Anyone have ideas or suggestions? This is currently a serious problem for me because during these problem times the guest servers are essentially unavailable.
Thanks,
MT