Citrix on ESX 4 U1 - Slow login times

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Published on 2010-02-15T14:51:17Z Indexed on 2010/04/06 14:03 UTC
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I'm sure they'd be just as slow if not slower using ESX 3 but I'm looking for some assistance.

On a physical Citrix server, logins are 1 - 4 seconds.

The virtual - 16 - 23 seconds.

I'm looking for performance enhancements that I can make to me VMs to try and reduce the login wait times.

The hardware is fine (HP BL685 (24 cores, 64GB RAM). And there's nothing pushing it yet.

Network 10Gb

I'm planning to test the configuration with VMXNET3 tomorrow, but does anyone have a list a best practices I can use when testing?

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