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VMWare Workstation Optimization

These documents contain various performance tweaks and configuration options for VMware Workstation, Fusion, and Player virtual machines. Some of the key tweaks include: 1) Disabling VM RAM swap files to keep memory in host RAM for better performance. 2) Enabling hardware virtualization for supported guest operating systems to improve performance of virtualized workloads. 3) Disabling Unity mode which is useful for desktop VMs but not server VMs to avoid unnecessary overhead. 4) Additional tweaks like disabling memory trimming, page sharing, and snapshots when not in use to optimize disk and memory I/O performance.

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VMWare Workstation Optimization

These documents contain various performance tweaks and configuration options for VMware Workstation, Fusion, and Player virtual machines. Some of the key tweaks include: 1) Disabling VM RAM swap files to keep memory in host RAM for better performance. 2) Enabling hardware virtualization for supported guest operating systems to improve performance of virtualized workloads. 3) Disabling Unity mode which is useful for desktop VMs but not server VMs to avoid unnecessary overhead. 4) Additional tweaks like disabling memory trimming, page sharing, and snapshots when not in use to optimize disk and memory I/O performance.

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http://www.virtualizationhowto.

com/2014/10/performance-tweaks-vmware-workstation
-10/
http://faq.sanbarrow.com/index.php?action=artikel&cat=78&id=76&artlang=en
http://sanbarrow.com/vmx/vmx-config-ini.html
Settings.ini file is located file either at C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Worksta
tion\or C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware Works
tation\folders, depending on your operating system.
For VMware Fusion on Mac and Linux instead of mainMem.useNamedFile you have to s
et mainMem.backing flag.
VMware Fusion Config files are located at:/Users/username/Library/Preferences/VM
ware Fusion/preferences and/Users/username/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/con
fig
Tweak: Disable VM ram swap files
mainmem.useNamedFile = "FALSE"
Preferences > Memory > Additional Memory > select Fit all virtual machine memory
into reserved host RAM
Tweak: Enable hardware virtualization
Workstation 11 / Player 7 / Fusion 7
Virtualized HV is fully supported for virtual hardware version 9 or later VMs on
hosts that support Intel VT-x and EPT or AMD-V and RVI. To enable virtualized H
V, select VM->Settings and navigate to the processor settings screen. Check the
box next to "Virtualize Intel VT-x/EPT or AMD-V/RVI."
https://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8970
Tweak: Disable Unity Mode
Unity might be a great feature for running virtual desktops operating systems, b
ut it is not the most useful for virtualizing server OS. An annoying sign of ena
bled unity is GuestAppsCache or caches folder with a large number of files in it
s appData-subfolder. In order to disable it for your VM, open your .vmx file in
a text editor and add the following line:
isolation.tools.unity.disable="TRUE"
unity.allowCompositingInGuest="FALSE"
unity.enableLaunchMenu = "FALSE"
unity.showBadges = "FALSE"
unity.showBorders = "FALSE"
unity.wasCapable = "FALSE"
Tweak: Disk & Memory I/O Performance Optimization
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=display
KC&externalId=1008885
Disable memory trimming:
MemTrimRate = "0"
Disable page sharing:
sched.mem.pshare.enable = "FALSE"
Disable snapshots if you are not using them and prefer full backups:
snapshot.disabled = "TRUE"
Disable scale down of memory allocation:
MemAllowAutoScaleDown = "FALSE"

Tweak: Misc Performance Hacks


# Fusion Performance Hacks
vmware.vmx["logging"] = "FALSE"
vmware.vmx["MemTrimRate"] = "0"
vmware.vmx["MemAllowAutoScaleDown"] = "FALSE"
vmware.vmx["mainMem.backing"] = "swap"
vmware.vmx["sched.mem.pshare.enable"] = "FALSE"
vmware.vmx["snapshot.disabled"] = "TRUE"
vmware.vmx["isolation.tools.unity.disable"] = "TRUE"
vmware.vmx["unity.allowCompostingInGuest"] = "FALSE"
vmware.vmx["unity.enableLaunchMenu"] = "FALSE"
vmware.vmx["unity.showBadges"] = "FALSE"
vmware.vmx["unity.showBorders"] = "FALSE"
vmware.vmx["unity.wasCapable"] = "FALSE"
vmware.vmx["vhv.enable"] = "TRUE"
http://openstackcookbook.com/2014/11/18/creating-a-vmware-workstation-sandbox-en
vironment-for-the-openstack-cloud-computing-cookbook/
http://www.turnadmin.com/create-hyper-v-virtualization-lab-inside-vmware-worksta
tion-10/
http://kb.mit.edu/confluence/display/istcontrib/VMware+Security+Recommendations+
and+Best+Practices#VMwareSecurityRecommendationsandBestPractices-BestPractices
Snapshots http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&c
md=displayKC&externalId=1009402
Virtualized Visual Studio 2013 VMware Fusion https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/li
brary/windows/apps/jj945426.aspx
http://pubs.vmware.com/view-50/index.jsp?topic=/com.vmware.view.administration.d
oc/GUID-E712DAE6-88DF-4208-BEFA-09513A01A26E.html
http://pubs.vmware.com/view-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.view.administration
.doc%2FGUID-E938922D-7DFD-41E7-A774-0C81CAE6595C.html
https://pubs.vmware.com/view-51/index.jsp#com.vmware.view.administration.doc/GUI
D-E712DAE6-88DF-4208-BEFA-09513A01A26E.html
https://pubs.vmware.com/view-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.view.administratio
n.doc%2FGUID-E938922D-7DFD-41E7-A774-0C81CAE6595C.html
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1)Power Options > High Performance Plan
2)Screen Saver > None
3)Disable Background Disk Defragmentation > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ Micros
oft\Dfrg\BootOptimizeFunction] "Enable"="N" Settings > Uncheck Run on a schedule
4)Disable System Protection > System Properties > System Protection > Configure
5)Disable Scheduled Disk Optimization > Local Disk Properties > Tools > Optimize
6)Disable Hibernation > Elevated CMD > powercfg -h off
7)System Performance > Settings Visual Effects to Custom > Uncheck options

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