Re: [Xen-users] [XCP] Slow Printing

["Brett Westover" <bwestover@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>How is network performance in general? For example doing a UNC based copy to 
>and 
>from the guest from a box not in the pool? 

I had the same thought. It seems fine. I haven't done any scientific testing,
but my ad-hoc file copies from/to a few different locations seem entirely 
normal.


>Also the "disabletaskoffloading" registry tweak mentioned here
>http://www.xenappblog.com/2010/citrix-xenserver-slow-network-performance/ 
>Might be worth a shot ......

I'll try that, but since I'm not really seeing bad network performance in 
general,
I don't know if it will help.

What about that other fix mentioned on your link?  "Disable CheckSum Offload". 
Is that
applicable to XCP, using XenTools drivers?


On Dec 2, 2011 5:52 PM, "Brett Westover" <bwestover@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I have a windows server 2003 machine acting as our print server. It was
> a VM on ESX 4.1,
> and I have now transferred to my XCP 1.1 pool.
>
> I used this procedure to transfer the VM:
>        1. Uninstall VMW tools
>        2. Shutdown VM
>        3. Export as OVF
>        4. Convert and import OVF to XCP pool using XenConvert
>        5. Power up VM on XCP using XenCenter
>        6. Install Citrix XenTools using XenCenter
>        7. Configure IP to match what it was originally
>
> The server appears to work the same as before, at least as far as
> configuration.
> All of the users' installed printers still function normally, and no
> additional changes
> had to be made to the server.
>
> The issue we have is that printing is now much slower. If I send a 35Mb
> PDF to the printer,
> I see it show up in the print queue on the server right away. However, I
> can watch it tick
> by VERY slowly as it sends that job to the printer. 0.1 MB every few
> seconds, whereas before
> this server was converted and moved to XCP, a job like that would fly
> right through.
>
> I've checked and there doesn't seem to be any issue in the guest as far
> as CPU/Memory. They
> are hardly being touched.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Brett Westover


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