Hi Everyone
I recently decided to switch from hosting Plex in a VM on ESXi 6.5 to bare metal so I can try to eliminate a virtualization layer. Also, I have read that a virtualized Freenas is never a good idea-- though I ran it quite well for 3+ years and never lost any data.
Either way, I wanted to have some virtual machines on my Freenas box-- a windows 10 VM and an Ubuntu 18.04 VM.
I have a Dell Precision T7810
Integrated: Intel AHCI 6Gb/s SATA controller with six ports (LSI SAS 9211-8i arrives tomorrow, June 6th to see if this helps)
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz (40 cores)
128GBGB 2400MHz DDR4 RDIMM ECC -- RAM might actually be throttled to 2133mhz. I'd have to double check.
I have been testing on several different hard drives, I have two 3TB (7200rpm) drives and Two 2TB (5400rpm) drives and Two 512GB SSD drives..
I originally set my Zvols for the VM's on the 3TB drives which was just mirrored. But the VM performance was slow!!
I then tried putting it on a standalone SSD Drive, however the VM performance is still very slow.
Windows 10 recognizes the CPU cores and the VirtIO NIC (1.118 as suggested).
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is running, it's slow, but I can manage. The Windows 10 Desktop is supposed to be used as a Remote Desktop machine on a daily basis-- as it was on ESXi.
I'm not exactly sure what is slowing it down.. the CPU in task manager shows low usage, however the DISK shows near 100% all the time. However, on Freenas using gstat or other monitoring tools, it does not appear the disk is being hit that hard. I have tried several different block sizes on the volume as well. Nothing seems to help.
I normally do not ask for help, as I can usually find the answer online. But I cannot seem to get anything on this.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I would really appreciate any help!
I recently decided to switch from hosting Plex in a VM on ESXi 6.5 to bare metal so I can try to eliminate a virtualization layer. Also, I have read that a virtualized Freenas is never a good idea-- though I ran it quite well for 3+ years and never lost any data.
Either way, I wanted to have some virtual machines on my Freenas box-- a windows 10 VM and an Ubuntu 18.04 VM.
I have a Dell Precision T7810
Integrated: Intel AHCI 6Gb/s SATA controller with six ports (LSI SAS 9211-8i arrives tomorrow, June 6th to see if this helps)
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz (40 cores)
128GBGB 2400MHz DDR4 RDIMM ECC -- RAM might actually be throttled to 2133mhz. I'd have to double check.
I have been testing on several different hard drives, I have two 3TB (7200rpm) drives and Two 2TB (5400rpm) drives and Two 512GB SSD drives..
I originally set my Zvols for the VM's on the 3TB drives which was just mirrored. But the VM performance was slow!!
I then tried putting it on a standalone SSD Drive, however the VM performance is still very slow.
Windows 10 recognizes the CPU cores and the VirtIO NIC (1.118 as suggested).
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is running, it's slow, but I can manage. The Windows 10 Desktop is supposed to be used as a Remote Desktop machine on a daily basis-- as it was on ESXi.
I'm not exactly sure what is slowing it down.. the CPU in task manager shows low usage, however the DISK shows near 100% all the time. However, on Freenas using gstat or other monitoring tools, it does not appear the disk is being hit that hard. I have tried several different block sizes on the volume as well. Nothing seems to help.
I normally do not ask for help, as I can usually find the answer online. But I cannot seem to get anything on this.
Does anyone have any suggestions? I would really appreciate any help!