Slippin' Jimmy Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 (edited) I'm getting slow speeds on my windows vm (see the image attached). I have the domain folder with the vms on my SSD along with my docker containers. Since(I think) adding my hard drive parity drive it seems to of slowed down performance on my SSD, i'm guessing this is because it has to write the parity drive at the same time so it slows down to hard drive performance? - is my thinking. Would it be more beneficial to move the vms and dockers onto my hard drive and set up the 250gb ssd as cache for the domain folder for vms, and docker? My config looks like this; Parity - ST4000DM004-2CV104_ZFN19PMG - 4 TB (sdc) Disk 1 - Samsung_SSD_840_EVO_250GB_S1DBNEAD827364F - 250 GB (sdb) Disk 3 - ST4000DM004-2CV104_ZFN0VKWT - 4 TB (sdd) Edited January 18, 2019 by jmmrly Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 Cache is not part of the parity array so is not affected by parity. Go to Tools - Diagnostics and attach the complete diagnostics zip file to your next post. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 I have the domain folder with the vms on my SSD along with my docker containers. Since(I think) adding my hard drive parity drive it seems to of slowed down performance on my SSD, i'm guessing this is because it has to write the parity drive at the same time so it slows down to hard drive performance? - is my thinking. Your thinking is correct, you should move the SSD to the cache slot (or use it unassigned) with all the docker/VM stuff. 1 Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 Sorry. I didn't notice you had an SSD in the array. Yes move the SSD to the cache slot. And no, you don't want your VMs and dockers on the parity array. The whole point of cache, and using SSDs, is to avoid the performance penalty of parity. And SSDs in the array may not even work correctly with parity. 1 Quote Link to comment
Slippin' Jimmy Posted January 19, 2019 Author Share Posted January 19, 2019 18 hours ago, johnnie.black said: Your thinking is correct, you should move the SSD to the cache slot (or use it unassigned) with all the docker/VM stuff. Yep that solved it, thanks! Quote Link to comment
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