I'm testing out using vmware view 6 as a platform for computer forensics. During the initial face of the investigation we run a program (encase) that hashes at indexes images of disks. This is something that takes typically 4 hours on a physical PC and in view it takes about 9 hours.
My question is - how do I get the most out of my platform ?
From what I can figure out looking at logs on the SAN (3PAR) and hosts the load on these are minimal. The OS m(Win7) on the view images maxes out CPU, disk and network. I've given it all I got (captain) - but it doesn't help. What to do. The specs (RAM, CPU and disk) is the same or even better on the VM vs. physical.
Any idea where to begin ?