Setting up a new home lab - currently I have a single PowerEdge R630 which boots ESXi from thumbdrive. PowerEdge is connected to Synology 1819+ with 10GBE - iSCSI provided datastore.
I have installed Windows Server 2016 VM (2vCPU, 4GB RAM) and have used the PVCSI disk driver and installed VM tools and Crystal Mark gives following fairly lowish looking results:
In the 1819+ I have:
3 x WD Ultrastar DC HC510 512 (10TB .
1 x 960GB Intel D3-4510 as read only SSD Cache
Any thoughts as to how to improve ?
Next test is to take a second 960GB Intel D3-4510 and set up read/write cache.
I have installed Windows Server 2016 VM (2vCPU, 4GB RAM) and have used the PVCSI disk driver and installed VM tools and Crystal Mark gives following fairly lowish looking results:
In the 1819+ I have:
3 x WD Ultrastar DC HC510 512 (10TB .
1 x 960GB Intel D3-4510 as read only SSD Cache
Any thoughts as to how to improve ?
Next test is to take a second 960GB Intel D3-4510 and set up read/write cache.