jmr Posted August 25, 2016 #1 Posted August 25, 2016 (edited) Hi everyone, I'm more of a windows admin but I'm implementing something for a Mac heavy client of mine who's just chasing a storage solution amongst other VM's that will eventually reside on his server. I've spun up a VM on an ESXi 6 host with the following specs. Host: Xeon E5-2620 (12 Logical Cores), 12GB Memory, 2 x 3TB SAS RAID-1, 2 x 1TB SAS RAID-1. (on a H730 Controller) I've allocated the XPEnology VM 2 vCPU's and 8GB Memory. The base OS is installed on a 10GB partition on the 1TB Array, I've mapped the 3TB directly as a Raw LUN - SCSI contorller is Paravirtual. At this stage, performance is shite. Haven't yet installed VMWare tools but surely that's not the issue. Any tips here? Or am I better bypassing the Hardware RAID and using software RAID within Synology (surely not!!??) Tips appreciated! Edited August 26, 2016 by Guest
jmr Posted August 26, 2016 Author #2 Posted August 26, 2016 To confirm - getting 5MB/Sec at the moment Boooooo
znakistu Posted August 26, 2016 #3 Posted August 26, 2016 I don't think it is the raid, check network configuration... On my custom nas (I3-6100, 16 gb ram, no raid config) i get limited by my router 830Mbps write and 930-950 Mbps on sata drives. Rise another VM on that machine and test the network speed and see the bandwidth.
jmr Posted August 26, 2016 Author #4 Posted August 26, 2016 Yeah so I spun up a Windows 10 VM Copying from it at under 5MB/Sec at the moment Something seriously wrong here what is it!
berwhale Posted August 27, 2016 #5 Posted August 27, 2016 What's the link speed for your vmnic? 100Mbps @ half duplex will give you roughly 5MB/Sec...
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