I recently moved my Windows 10 VM disk img from my 120GB SSD cache to a 240GB SSD disk 5 in my array, no other share used this drive and it is setup soley for use with the VM. I have noticed that since doing this I hear a lot more HHD activity than I used to while at my machine, does this have something to do with the fact that the VM is now installed on a disk in the array vs the cache disk? Is it ok to run a VM from a share disk vs the cache?

I recently moved my Windows 10 VM disk img from my 120GB SSD cache to a 240GB SSD disk 5 in my array, no other share used this drive and it is setup soley for use with the VM. I have noticed that since doing this I hear a lot more HHD activity than I used to while at my machine, does this have something to do with the fact that the VM is now installed on a disk in the array vs the cache disk? Is it ok to run a VM from a share disk vs the cache?

Assuming that you have a parity disk, then an array disk will give significantly lower performance than the cache disk as all writes will be relatively slow due to the need to also update the parity disk.  As long as you do not mind the performance hit then running like that is fine.  Also if you are running without a parity disk then the performance hit is nowhere near as high, although since you have moved from a SSD to HDD there will still be some.

I recently moved my Windows 10 VM disk img from my 120GB SSD cache to a 240GB SSD disk 5 in my array, no other share used this drive and it is setup soley for use with the VM. I have noticed that since doing this I hear a lot more HHD activity than I used to while at my machine, does this have something to do with the fact that the VM is now installed on a disk in the array vs the cache disk? Is it ok to run a VM from a share disk vs the cache?

 

I really wouldnt run a vm from the array. if you dont want to use your cache maybe get another drive and connect as unassigned drive and put your vm on that

The Parity disk, that's the answer to all the HDD noise. Disk 5 is an SSD 240GB with nothing on it other than the disk img for the windows VM. I assume I could do either of the following, convert the 240GB SSD to the cache drive and use the 120GB SSD as a drive on the array. Or the better alternative maybe upgrading to 6.2 and using both the 120GB SSD and the 240GB SSD as cache drives.

The Parity disk, that's the answer to all the HDD noise. Disk 5 is an SSD 240GB with nothing on it other than the disk img for the windows VM. I assume I could do either of the following, convert the 240GB SSD to the cache drive and use the 120GB SSD as a drive on the array. Or the better alternative maybe upgrading to 6.2 and using both the 120GB SSD and the 240GB SSD as cache drives.

 

I definitely would not use an ssd in the array. I would only use as cache or unassigned disk if were me.