Hi all,
My home server is built around a SuperMicro MBD-X10DRI powered by a dual Xeon E5 2630 v4 CPU. The memory currently is just at 32gb (gosh i wished the memory prices go down).
So Currently I have a few VM hosts running on this server, to be precise 5.
None of these hosts are resource intensive.
However recently I've created a host for windows 10 its primarily for p2p torrenting (pretty much legal stuff), and this host lags like crazy. The os freezes every few seconds and regains then lags and this keeps going on. Have assigned 16 CPu to this host, 16gb memory and PCIE passthrough using a LSI card to a 24 port SAS2 backplane. The hosts are on Intel Enterprise SSD's.
Let me talk a bit more about this in detail.
So I have a 1gbps bandwith at home, and on this ESXI server.
If i am downloading on my standalone PC i get expected speed of 112-113 mb/sec But if i try to do the same thing on this vm window host, i never get over 25 mb/sec. Plus the torrent client freezes, and so does any other open application or window on this host.
Not sure if this is due to HDD, or misconfigured CPU allocation? is that even a thing.
Let me explain.
The two cpu combined I get 20 CPU's.
I have been generously allocating CPU's to various hosts. Could this be the issue.?
For eg:-
I have assigned 16 CPU's for FreeNAS
As all the 16 is not used all the time (i guess), i have assigned 16 cpu again to SnapRAID server (media server host on Windows 10).
Again generously I have assiged 10 CPU's to AD, DHCP, DNS server.
D0 u think the over allocation of the cpu might be causing all this? I was thinking if all of the CPU's are not fully utilized by a single host, why not just assign the extra cpu's while building the host. I can shut the hosts and edit out the allocation if required and if this is what is causing the hosts to lag.
The network switch is a gigabit switch. Please note, the standalone PC is also connected to this switch, there is not bandwith lag on PC. Only on the vm hosts. Plus i think the main issue is due to the lag in the host itself, its also affecting the bandwith.
Are there settings one has to edit after installing ESXI for supporting 1gbps internet bandwith? Or tune the cpu, memory etc in the esxi server?
Please guide. Why is the host lagging, hdd slow and internet throttling?
The Chassis is 4U SuperMicro with a SAS2 backplane.
Pls note, the network card is built in to the MBD-X10DRI motherboard (i350 dual gbe LAN)
Or some driver issue?
Oh and btw, i have two disks attached to it 4TB each totalling 8TB, thats where i have a pcie passthrough
My home server is built around a SuperMicro MBD-X10DRI powered by a dual Xeon E5 2630 v4 CPU. The memory currently is just at 32gb (gosh i wished the memory prices go down).
So Currently I have a few VM hosts running on this server, to be precise 5.
None of these hosts are resource intensive.
However recently I've created a host for windows 10 its primarily for p2p torrenting (pretty much legal stuff), and this host lags like crazy. The os freezes every few seconds and regains then lags and this keeps going on. Have assigned 16 CPu to this host, 16gb memory and PCIE passthrough using a LSI card to a 24 port SAS2 backplane. The hosts are on Intel Enterprise SSD's.
Let me talk a bit more about this in detail.
So I have a 1gbps bandwith at home, and on this ESXI server.
If i am downloading on my standalone PC i get expected speed of 112-113 mb/sec But if i try to do the same thing on this vm window host, i never get over 25 mb/sec. Plus the torrent client freezes, and so does any other open application or window on this host.
Not sure if this is due to HDD, or misconfigured CPU allocation? is that even a thing.
Let me explain.
The two cpu combined I get 20 CPU's.
I have been generously allocating CPU's to various hosts. Could this be the issue.?
For eg:-
I have assigned 16 CPU's for FreeNAS
As all the 16 is not used all the time (i guess), i have assigned 16 cpu again to SnapRAID server (media server host on Windows 10).
Again generously I have assiged 10 CPU's to AD, DHCP, DNS server.
D0 u think the over allocation of the cpu might be causing all this? I was thinking if all of the CPU's are not fully utilized by a single host, why not just assign the extra cpu's while building the host. I can shut the hosts and edit out the allocation if required and if this is what is causing the hosts to lag.
The network switch is a gigabit switch. Please note, the standalone PC is also connected to this switch, there is not bandwith lag on PC. Only on the vm hosts. Plus i think the main issue is due to the lag in the host itself, its also affecting the bandwith.
Are there settings one has to edit after installing ESXI for supporting 1gbps internet bandwith? Or tune the cpu, memory etc in the esxi server?
Please guide. Why is the host lagging, hdd slow and internet throttling?
The Chassis is 4U SuperMicro with a SAS2 backplane.
Pls note, the network card is built in to the MBD-X10DRI motherboard (i350 dual gbe LAN)
Or some driver issue?
Oh and btw, i have two disks attached to it 4TB each totalling 8TB, thats where i have a pcie passthrough
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