February 11, 20179 yr The unRaid update killed my machine so I might have to start from scratch. I have the E5 setup that a lot of people bought about 18 months ago. I use it for a bunch of small VMs but I also use it for a Windows 10 general office software machine -- lots of graphics software basically -- Corel Draw mostly. I had setup 8 CPUs and 50 gigs of RAM using a file on the cache SSD for the HD. I found the performance was lacking. The VM already has a dedicated sound card and a dedicated USB card that I pass-through What could I do to make it better? Things I was considering. Buy a SATA 3 card with a dedicated SSD Dedicated NIC currently 2 VMs were headless and constantly accessed using RDP sometimes by physical machine and other times by the Window 10 VM I'm trying to speed up. Not sure if that is too much for a dual NIC Better GFX card. I am just using an old ATI card I had. It was more than adequate in the physical computer I pulled it out of powering a 2560x1600 and a 1920x1200. In the VM I am pushing it a bit more dual 2560x1440.
February 12, 20179 yr describe how your performance was lacking. isolating the vm away from other resources can help. the includes a dedicated QUALITY ssd or one that is not being accessed by other dockers (meaning not in the cache pool,) isolating cpu cores away from unraid, and a much better graphics card. I run my windows 10 vm on 6-12 cores of an x5670 processor, on a ssd with 3 other disk images, with a gtx 760 I got second hand and have no issues with performance in photoshop.
February 12, 20179 yr Author I'm not the main user but from what I have been told and playing with it myself the problem is mostly graphics lag. Moving between windows is slow, moving objects around in Corel there is lag, moving between layers in Photoshop is really slow. There is also file access issues (disk cannot be accessed error) when saving -- the files save to unRAID shares not the VM's disk image Playing videos also doesn't seem to work. They are choppy and at times you get ghost images / random shapes Running benchmrks now Nova I got vary different results two different runs but in both cases GPU and CPU were under 40th percentile. Disk speed was only 84MB/s Running Sandra now The graphics card is a HD5700 which is older but worked fine in a physical machine I've assigned 10 out of 32 cores to it and 49 gigs of ram. I've followed the instructions in the topic on how to pin cores and I think I have done it right. I found out my motherboard has some SATA3 ports so I don't need a controller and I think a dedicated SSD and a better GHX card is probably necessary.
February 12, 20179 yr for the folder where you disk image i stored, what is the cache setting? (shares>share name>use cache disk) what processor are you using? have you isolated the vm cores away from unraid? What divers is the video card using? you're going to to see the processor score low because you're using half of it (I assume, since you said you have 32 cores, which could two 8 core processors, meaning you're using half a processor) are you accessing the corral draw application via RDP? if so, there could be other network bottlenecks. have you tried making new windows vm to duplicate the problems in yet?
February 12, 20179 yr Author The disk image is on the cache disk set to cache only CPU is dual E5-2670 so 18000+ passmark and while I don't expect a perfect ratio 10/32 would be in the 5600 range and I'm getting slightly higher than 2000. Drivers I would have to check when I get back to the office but installed the ATI drivers for the graphics card No RDP. Corel is installed on the VM.
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