VMWare woes with DISK IO & Possible Solution

Posted by Benjamin Close on August 12, 2009 under ClearChain, Computers | Read the First Comment

Recently the server hosting clearchain.com (aka Leo) has been having disk io errors. This has had me quite perplexed. You see Leo is a virtual machine running on redundant hardware as part of an VMWare ESX cluster. Hence whilst I can understand slow performance and delayed access at some times, disk IO’s don’t make sense. [..more..]