Hi Rob,
I'm not sure I follow: I have an ESXi 4.1 host running 5 VMs. 4 of the VMs are various MS Windows servers. The 5th VM is dedicated to AirWave (8.2.5 I think), which I installed using an ISO I had downloaded from Aruba. How could this one VM be running multiple instances? I guess I don't know VMware as well as I thought :)
Initially my AW usage will be very minimal, with probably no more than 10 to 15 devices as I test AW in my office. I have a single Aruba AP 303H, which has maybe 5 to 10 wifi clients. Then there's a few Cisco and Netgear switches, but not much else. Are there any guidelines as to how much memory an AW VM needs for extremely small environments? I assume the more devices one monitors with AW, the more traffic and data to be stored. So I would assume 80GB HDD is really not needed for small installs? And the 8GB memory?
VMware does support "reserving" memory - which I have never needed to do. Is Pavin suggesting editing my AW VM's properties and making a memory "reservation"? I imagine that reserving memory might reserve a chunk of physical non-shared memory for the VM - resulting in faster access since no paging to disk needs to be done for the reserved memory? This is all just a big guess, as I have very little experience in tuning VMware...
Thanks,
Mike