VMware Server 2
I run a number of "production" quality VMware Server installations for development environments, I will explain my optimal configuration and how I go about setting it up.
Hardware
| Motherboard | ASUS M3A78 Pro |
| Processor | AMD Phenom X4 9950 |
| Memory modules | 4x 2GB Kingston DDR2-800 |
| SATA drives (for RAID) | 4x 500GB WDC "Black" 7200RPM (LVM, /dev/sd[a-d]) |
| USB drive (for /boot) | 2GB Kingston DataTraveller USB key (/boot, /dev/sde) |
Linux distribution
Ubuntu Linux 8.10 (Intrepid) using the AMD64 (64-bit) installation, Ubuntu provides a moderately up to date environment for our installation.
Software RAID (mdraid) configuraiton
mdadm –create /dev/md0 –level=raid10 –raid-devices=4 –chunk=256 /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd
LVM Configuration/File System
| LV Name |
Mount point | File system | Size | Command |
| vg0/root | / | XFS | 6GB | mkfs.xfs /dev/mapper/vg0-root |
| vg0/swap | - | Swap | 8GB | mkswap /dev/mapper/vg0-swap |
| vg0/data | /data | XFS | - | mkfs.xfs -d su=256k,sw=2 -l su=256k -f /dev/mapper/vg0-data |
| /dev/sde | /boot | ext2 | - | mkfs.ext2 /dev/sde |
/etc/sysctl.conf
vm.swappiness = 0
vm.dirty_background_ratio = 5
vm.dirty_ratio = 100
/etc/vmware/config
MemTrimRate = "0"
sched.mem.pshare.enable = "FALSE"
MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"
mainMem.useNamedFile = "FALSE"
