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Let's say I have a windows VM on an 8-core machine and I've pinned cores 2/3/4/5 to the VM. Does the Windows installation 'see' that these are CPU cores 2/3/4/5 or does it regard them as 0/1/2/3? I'm wanting to allocate certain Windows tasks to specific cores. Thanks.

OK - I've set up 2x NVME in a RAID0 pool and made this available to my Windows VM as a disk share. The write speed when copying files in Win10 is crazy low. Around 29 Mb/s. 2x Samsung Evo 870 in RAID 0 on a PCI4 threadripper build. The drives max out at around 500Mb/s. I'm not expecting that but 5% of their max?

Hi. I run a Win10 VM predominantly used for some statistical analysis apps. In order to increase performance, I'm looking to feed it with: - a RAID0 NVME pair using two NVME drives I have spare - a large RAM disk (my server has 128GB). RAID0..... I have the unassigned devices plugin. Am I best to make the RAID0 pair and use unassigned devices to make it available to the Win10 VM? Or somehow make a share using the RAID0 pair only (putting the RAID0 pair into a new cache pool and having a share only using that)? All tips/links to best how to posts appreciated. RAM disk.... Best to allocate more ram (say 96GB) to the Win10 VM and use a Windows RAM disk application to create say a 64GB RAM disk? ....or do something within Linux/Unraid to create a RAM disk and present it to the VM? All pointers to best practice/example posts on what to do would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Hi! I've embarked on a major upgrade of my UnRAID machine and am looking to optimise and reuse various SSDs. My goal is: - array (all in hand) - Windows VM (ditto) - OS X VM combined with a RAID 0 scratch drive - various dockers (all in hand) I have a 1TB NVMe SSD that is currently set up as a single cache drive and is currently utilised for the Windows VM and a couple of dockers. I would like to dedicate this SSD to the Windows VM. Not clear if cache or passthrough is the best approach. I plan to repurpose: - another 1TB NVMe SSD. I would like to dedicate this to the OS X VM. - a pair of 250GB NVMe SSDs. I would like to set these as a dedicated RAID0 array for use as a scratch drive for the OS X VM. Seems sensible to use this RAID0 array as the cache too although if this pair need to be dedicated/passed through(?) to the OS X VM, I could use the docker's SSD for cache. - a 512GB NVMe SSD. I would like to dedicate this to various dockers. I have a Threadripper supporting PCI 4. The Windows VM's SSD is PCI 4. The remaining SSDs are PCI3 which I plan to use in an Asus Hyper M.2 X16 to make use of the available PCI lanes on the processor. I'm not 100% clear on cache pool configuration or passing through/dedicating NVMe drives to VMs so would appreciate some pointers. Thanks! BD.