Re: Virtualization VMWare ESX and Win2k3 as a Guest OS

> Have you tried to duplicate it w a native install of w2k3?

This customer had been working with pg2.9 on win2k3 native for
several months without issue. Hardware company upgraded them to a new
server and used VMWare to copy the server and an instance ESX and then
move the entire server to a new machine and run it as a guest.

We reinstalled pg and the data, but still getting the same problems.

> Are you sure you're measuring the same disk space that vmware hosted
> w2k3 is measuring?

Well now, that is a very good point and I will look into that one.
However, the when using the regular windows tools ( ie. dir c:\*.*,
windows explorer, etc) it show 40gb+ available.

>
> > Google tells me "don't do it",  but other than adjusting fsync, is
> > their any other suggestions.
>
> fsync has no affect on disk space usage really.
>
> > Unfortunately, installing *nix as the host is not an option.
>
> Hmmm.  Sounds like a religious statement.  Is there an actual reason
> for no unix?

Simply put, we have little *nix experience and I am not sure this is
the best time to start experimenting/learning.

Thanks for the tips Scott. Appreciate your input.

g.