Slow performance from auto-scaled VM

We've noticed a severe drop off from one of our VMs in an auto-scale group. These are build servers so we run the same workload across them. These used to perform identically, but no longer.
Our auto-scale is simply set to scale on a schedule from 2 down to 1 at weekends and evenings.
On investigation and reviewing the auto scale logs, we can see continuous attempts to scale from 2 to 3 servers (despite it only being configured in the UI for 2 servers, and there only being two instances configured).
AVAILABILITY SET INSTANCES AUTOSCALE
fa-dev-build 2 Small On
Here's a sample from the log (there are numerous entries per day). I'm not sure if this is causing the performance issues but either way seems to indicate something is definitely amiss? Note that in the *log* it indicates a Min/Max of 3, despite it showing 2 in the cloud scale configuration page. Can anyone help? Thanks.
ActiveAutoscaleProfile:
"Name": "Week Day",
"Capacity": {
"Minimum": "3",
"Maximum": "3",
"Default": "3"
"Rules": [],
"Recurrence": {
"Frequency": "Week",
"Schedule": {
"TimeZone": "GMT Standard Time",
"Days": [
"Monday",
"Tuesday",
"Wednesday",
"Thursday",
"Friday"
"Hours": [
9
"Minutes": [
0
Description:
The autoscale engine attempting to scale resource 'fa-dev-build:fa-dev-build' from 2 instances count to 3 instances count.
LastScaleActionTime:
20131204T113737Z
NewInstancesCount:
3
OldInstancesCount:
2
ResourceName:
fa-dev-build:fa-dev-build

Is it possible that at some point in the past there were 3 machines? I would recommend changing the autoscale setting to be at 1, saving, and then changing it back to 2. That might change the setting and clear out the 3.
The reason that you're seeing it try to scale to 3 is the min and max are 3. This may be a UI issue showing the wrong value of the min/max.
Thanks,
-Stephen

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1. How can I verify that the slow performance is due to the HDD being defective/badly configured/etc.?
2. Has the Windows Bootcamp Partition any effect on my machine’s performance under MacOS? (I would assume not, but you never know!). I have more than 1.3 TB free space left
3. What kind of corrective measures should I take?
4. Any other type of advice will be warmly welcome: I will try to do some PRAM and SMC resets but I am not counting on it. I had also ran the disk utilities and there were no permission errors (not so sure what this means, but I’ve read that it is supposed to be good news.)
5. Any extra info you might need, lemme know!
Greetz,
Víctor.
PS: Sorry for the loooong post. I tried to be thorough!

1. How can I verify that the slow performance is due to the HDD being defective/badly configured/etc.?
Run Apple Hardware Test: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509
2. Has the Windows Bootcamp Partition any effect on my machine’s performance under MacOS? (I would assume not, but you never know!). I have more than 1.3 TB free space left
Probably not but 1.3TB of free space left on the total HD is not enough for OS X, OS X needs a minimum of 10-15% free space! If you mean 1.3TB of Windows space I'd recommend posting that question in the Boot Camp forum.
3. What kind of corrective measures should I take?
If the drive is failing per the AHT then it's covered by warranty and will need to be replaced. Remember back up!!!!!!!!!!
4. Any other type of advice will be warmly welcome: I will try to do some PRAM and SMC resets but I am not counting on it. I had also ran the disk utilities and there were no permission errors (not so sure what this means, but I’ve read that it is supposed to be good news.)
Can't hurt, make sure you read the instructions carefully and execute the tests exactly as they are described for Intel based iMacs.
5. Any extra info you might need, lemme know!
If you no longer have a need for Windows on your iMac I'd recommend removing that partition using Boot Camp Assistant. That may correct your problems.
I would also recommend checking if System Preferences - Startup Disk and see if your internal HD is highlighted as the Startup Disk.
In addition I would recommend checking your Login Items (System Preferences - Accounts - Login Items) and delete any applications you don't need launching at Login.

Slow Performance Weeks after Encryption

I encrypted my organization's laptops several weeks ago and did not return them to users until after I could tell by device performance that the bulk encrypting task had completed. I have two users that are experiencing extremely slow performance on their systems. When the users are typing anything like a Word document, upon each keystroke they see the Windows 7 "circle" icon at the mouse cursor. This seems to come and go several times over the week, and every few days we are getting a request to resolve the issue but after restarting the behavior may not act up anymore.
I found a TID suggesting to change HKLM\SOFTWARE\Novell-FDE\Parameters\ThrottleEncryption to a lower level like Idle or BelowNormal. Is there anything else that I should also try? Thanks!

Yes, but nothing from Novell yet - I will keep pushing them forward and let you know if I get some results.
-j-
>>> Jim Koerner<[email protected]> 8.3.2013 15:29 >>>
Sounds like you have a SR going on this also. Have you heard anything on a
fix? Mine has been stagnant for a while and I just bumped it to see if
anything has been figured out or if more info is needed from my side. Hope
to here something soon. This is a pretty severe problem especially when it
happens multiple times to a machine.
Jim Koerner
Server - ZCM 11.2.2 MU1 and Internal Database on Win2008R2x64
Client - ZCM 11.2.2 MU1 on Win7SP1x64 and WinXPx32
"Jouko Oksanen" <Jouko.Oksanen_re@move_efore.fi> wrote in message
news:513713E9.13C8.00F6.0@move_efore.fi...
Hi,
We have had (maybe) similar issues with our FDE setup that FDE policy
assigned devices tend to loose the policy and start to do disk decryption
and suddenly get once again the policy back and start to encrypt again. This
could be found from "ZCM agent, Full disk encryption, about, Agents status,
Settings, on section "Emergency Recovery Information" you could see events
'Zone Changed' what according to Novell support meant that the policy was
"re-initialized / changed" even our policy counter have not changed = policy
got lost in some phase.
We are now suspecting that there is some issues with the policy service that
plays tricks on us.
-j-
>>> Jim Koerner<[email protected]> 20.2.2013 19:57
>>> >>>
In ZCC on the devices that you are having issues with look at the Emergency
Recovery tab and see if you have multiple listings in here that corresponds
to the slowness. If so your devices are decrypting and then re-encrypting.
Your mention of being asked to reboot leads me to believe that is what is
happening to you.
I have had a few SRs going on this one for a while and it got bumped to
backend but no info in a month or so.
Jim Koerner
Server - ZCM 11.2.2 MU1 and Internal Database on Win2008R2x64
Client - ZCM 11.2.2 MU1 on Win7SP1x64 and WinXPx32
"marklar23" wrote in message
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I encrypted my organization's laptops several weeks ago and did not
return them to users until after I could tell by device performance that
the bulk encrypting task had completed. I have two users that are
experiencing extremely slow performance on their systems. When the
users are typing anything like a Word document, upon each keystroke they
see the Windows 7 "circle" icon at the mouse cursor. This seems to come
and go several times over the week, and every few days we are getting a
request to resolve the issue but after restarting the behavior may not
act up anymore.
I found a TID suggesting to change
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Novell-FDE\Parameters\ThrottleEncryption to a lower level
like Idle or BelowNormal. Is there anything else that I should also
try? Thanks!
marklar23
marklar23's Profile: http://forums.novell.com/member.php?userid=5123
View this thread: http://forums.novell.com/showthread.php?t=464262

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