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I have a 9260-8i with Samsung 840 Pro as the CacheCade drive. I have never noticed any performance increase for writes with Write Back or Write Through, in fact it may be negatively impacting. Does anyone have any experience with RAID controllers with CacheCade/SSDs?

So in bed with an awful hangover, I decided that retail therapy was the answer and have bought 2x DELL JM42W Dual Port 10 GBe (copper) NICs that I believe are basically intel X520-T2. Can anyone tell me if I can simply use the std Intel Drivers for these or if they are Dell specific (like the...

I have two servers, each has 4 NIC ports, and dual CPU 12 core. On each 2 ports are intel I350-T2 and the other are some fujitsu crap. I have not managed above 220 MB/s transfer rates, although i have managed to see traffic on all 4 ports, so SMB is working. Can anyone suggest things i can try...

Hi I have an IBM ServeRAID M5014 and an LSI 9260-8i. The former has a BBU, the latter does not. The latter has CacheCade Pro 2.0 the former does not. So what makes sense to me is to move my array onto the LSI card after fitting the BBU to it. 1) Is this possible? 2) What is entailed when...

I am connecting drives in a RAID 5 array. What is the best way to connect them to the ports? Spread them over the two or all on one? Is there a performance gain from utilising both ports compared with say 4 drives on one? Thanks

Hi all Just before i brick my new RAID card, i thought i better just ask. Is using the MegaRec tool, as per this guide suitable for NON-SuperMicro machines? How to Flash IBM ServeRAID M5014 to LSI 9260-8i Firmware My MB is a consumer Gigabyte board, i have no SuperMicro boards [sad face]...

So i have read some people install to USB flash drives, some to SD cards, some to the same HDD that their Datastore uses. Is the disks performance important? What size is future proof? What is best? Thank you please.

So i've setup ESXi 6.5/vCenter 6.5/vSphere 6.5 for a pilot. I need to import the same Hyper-V guest as on an identical (physically) server running Hyper-V for a comparison against VMWare. So my obvious thoughts are that I need to import the powered-off server that is currently in Hyper-V, or...

I have just installed 6.5 using pen drive, no issues, all installed fine. Set a password, it clearly works because I can login to the console using the KVM on the server. Using the IP, prompted for creds but i am rejected every time. Using root as the username as no other users have been setup...

Hi, Newbie here I am buying an HP Z820 with 256GB RAM, plus 4x Samsung SSDs for a test lab. What version of ESXi/vSphere would people recommend for stability? I gather the GPU passthrough is flaky on 6.0 at the moment, but I dont see as many reports about people using 6.5. Is 6.5 beta? Also...