elmuziko Posted April 23, 2014 Share #1 Posted April 23, 2014 Morning gents. Just a quickie I guess. Since moving to ESXi and DSM 5 my USB speeds are awful. Last night at 6pm I set off a backup of movie data to a USB drive. This morning at 8am it'd only copied over 350gb. When I was using Trantor's 4.3 (without ESXi) I would have managed well over 1tb by then. Not sure if the problem is ESXi or DSM. My Virtual machine has an xHCI USB controller added. The only way I could get the USB hard drive to work on DSM was to then add a USB device - which showed the external drive. There were no options to set the USB type (1, 2 or 3) Any suggestions? My router has a USB port which if necessary I'm quite happy to plug into that and then copy the data that way but not sure if it's possible to map a drive/ftp from within DSM back out. Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elpee Posted April 23, 2014 Share #2 Posted April 23, 2014 Any suggestions? IMO, try not to use ESXi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmuziko Posted April 23, 2014 Author Share #3 Posted April 23, 2014 Hahaha! Good answer. Only reason I'm using ESXi is because I want to use Google music manager and map it to a Syno shared folder. That way any music I download can go straight up into the cloud. If anyone knows how to get Google music manager on the syno without using bootstrap I'm all over it and will give you my wife. You can have her. She can't cook for shit but she's small and pretty so the trade off works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jokies Posted April 24, 2014 Share #4 Posted April 24, 2014 Up to now ESXi supports only USB 2.0. It's a software limitation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmuziko Posted April 24, 2014 Author Share #5 Posted April 24, 2014 Are you sure? Because choosing xHCI it clearly says support for USB 3? Even still this isn't USB 2 speeds. This is USB 1. In fact I'm pretty sure it's even slower. My router supports USB so is there anyway of copying the files from DSM to a samba share and not the other way around? That way I can achieve the same goal just via a different method. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcdull Posted April 24, 2014 Share #6 Posted April 24, 2014 ESXi support only USB 2.0 on host device (SURE). it does support virtualized USB 3.0 on specific guest device via Vsphere client over ethernet. i.e. USB 3.0 on vsphere client connected to ESXi virtual machine. So it IS the limitation of ESXi 5.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmuziko Posted April 24, 2014 Author Share #7 Posted April 24, 2014 ok well that explains slower than USB 3 speeds but 350gb in 12 hours is well below USB 2 surely? They're not pissy small files either, they're HD mkv's so anywhere between 3gb and 20gb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jokies Posted April 24, 2014 Share #8 Posted April 24, 2014 ok well that explains slower than USB 3 speeds but 350gb in 12 hours is well below USB 2 surely? They're not pissy small files either, they're HD mkv's so anywhere between 3gb and 20gb Hey buddy, you know that vmware have their own knowledge base and forum right? I believe your problem will be better solved there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcdull Posted April 25, 2014 Share #9 Posted April 25, 2014 350*1024 = 358400MB 12*60*60 = 43200s 8.3MB / s I dont see it is a very bad number in using USB port under VM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elmuziko Posted April 25, 2014 Author Share #10 Posted April 25, 2014 Ok thanks for your input gents. Will persevere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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