Raidersan Posted June 25, 2014 Share #1 Posted June 25, 2014 Hi, I have ESXi 5.5 with Nanoboot, 3 disks on the host. My intention is to keep the Diskstation VM clean and install most other software (Plex, transmission,...) on another VM on the same host (many reasons, not too interesting) I have the feeling that allowing Plex (and others) to access the Diskstation storage through shares would not be the best way performance-wise. I have been trying to read up on iSCSI but fail to get the concept. Can somebody give me a few pointers as to the best way to do this and if iSCSI would help in my case? Many thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rochefort Posted June 27, 2014 Share #2 Posted June 27, 2014 I have esx setup on an N54l. VM's on an SSD, with the mechanical disks presented directly to the XPEnology VM. I've got another ArchLinux VM setup with sab and all that stuff that uses CIFS and I see 100MB/s transfers so its not slow. SAB uses the SSD for the download cache before copying it over to whichever share on XPEnology is relevant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbugman Posted June 27, 2014 Share #3 Posted June 27, 2014 Your only issue comes with if two vms try to access the same file at the same time Also esxi does not allow RAW drives to sleep J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raidersan Posted June 27, 2014 Author Share #4 Posted June 27, 2014 Thanks, very useful, I will use them CIFS only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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