[Unraid as VMWare ESXi Virtual Machine Performance?]

So to update you guys I ended up grabbing a dedicated ESXi box and left my Unraid to it's own dedicated hardware. Thank you all for the help, I think I will test another Unraid build in a VM before I decide to migrate my main box again.

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[Unraid as VMWare ESXi Virtual Machine Performance?]

Sorry I didn't answer that part, yes my network is a 1GBE network. I will follow your link and perform a iperf speed test on esxi with unraid and get back to you.

Thank you for your response!

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[Unraid as VMWare ESXi Virtual Machine Performance?]

The only thing I have changed is converted Unraid to a VM when my speeds became slower. My network cannot be the bottleneck in this situation even if it is slower then normal.

I'm trying to figure out how I can achieve normal read and write speeds to my Unraid vm. If you know any other troubleshooting steps I can take to understand why my SMB transfers are extremely slow that would be helpful.

Thank you!

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Hey so i set the MTU to default and tested with iPerf3, this test is using only the 1 virtual NIC, previously i did a iperf test with my pass through NIC bonded and i got approx 800 mbps to another hard wired computer which is how i test the file transfers as well.

 

This time i got over 150 mb/s with just 1 virtual NIC so that should not be the bottle neck. Screenshot below.

 

[Unraid as VMWare ESXi Virtual Machine Performance?]

So I ended up trying it out. I removed my nic passthrough entirely and added one virtual nic. Tested a file transfer coping from the array to a windows server and I got a max of 14mbps.

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[Unraid as VMWare ESXi Virtual Machine Performance?]

Hi StevenD,

 

So for my unraid VM, i have the H310 (IT MODE),  2 x NVME drives, USB 3 controller, Quadro P2000, and a Quad Port Intel NIC all passed through to the unraid VM. I also have all 4 ports on the NIC connected to UNRAID and bonded running Link Aggregation 802ad which is also enabled on my switch. (My Ethernet MTU is 9000, which is also enabled on the switch)

 

My main concern is coping files to the array and the extremely slow speed of 20 - 30 mb/s MAX. I can provide more information about my setup if required to help troubleshoot.

 

Thank you for your time and viewing my post, this issue is bothering me so much!

[Unraid as VMWare ESXi Virtual Machine Performance?]

Thanks for the responses, i successfully installed UNRAID on ESXi 7. It is working now the only major issues is i noticed my speeds have dropped when transferring files.

 

Before i was getting approx 130 write max and read. Now i only get about 75 Writing to the cache drive and only 30 when reading directly from the array. Can anyone please help me with this issue ?

[Unraid as VMWare ESXi Virtual Machine Performance?]

I wanted to move my bare metal Unraid installation to an Esxi 7 virtual machine, i have the instructions on how to do so but was really wondering what the performance is like.

 

Can some users that have been running Unraid in a virtual machine share their experiences and rough performance stats. This would be greatly appreciated Thank You!