Spies Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 I don't have the budget for a large enough cache SSD but performance from a raw disk image on a spinning disk with Windows Server 2016 is quite poor. Can I improve this by passing through a partition from an unassigned disk? If so, how do I create a partition on an unassigned disk and configure a VM to use it? Quote Link to comment
Warrentheo Posted March 31, 2019 Share Posted March 31, 2019 (edited) Everything on Linux is a file, its very different from windows that way... If you don't want to point it at: /mnt/cache/domains/Windows/vdisk1.img then point it at something like this instead: /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HDS5C3030ALA630_MJ1321YNG06KNA this points it to the devices folder, selects a block device disk, and this is important, it selects it "by-id" so that if you ever change your partitions or drives it doesn't break where the VM is pointing... there are others, you can select by several others, check out what you have in your /dev/disk/ folder on the UnRaid host... Be Careful, Linux will happily let you specify the wrong one and let you overwrite an important data drive, so double-check you got the correct one... Edited March 31, 2019 by Warrentheo Quote Link to comment
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