hey there,
I'm building a freenas box to use for backup.
Hardwarewise, it's a single xeon L5630, 12 gb ram, intel rs2wc040 hba (drives exported as jbod), 12 x1TB drives (mix of wd blacks, seagate CS, hgst).
I'll be using this as storage for a veeam b&r virtual machine, running windows 7 ultimate.
i wanted to mount the storage in the vm as NFS, but i'm having some performance issues. I do believe the nfs implementation in windows 7 is just bad. I'm getting 30 MB/s read and write from the windows machine to the freenas box using nfs in windows.
If i use iscsi, i get the full gigabit speed (100+ MB/s). Also, if i mount the freenas dataset in the esxi host as NFS, and then create a virtual disk on this datastore for the vm, i also get 100+ MB/s speeds, which means nfs speed is ok, just not windows7 implementation.
I would rather use NFS because i also want to use the storage for other backups, and creating a volume to use with iscsi simply fragments the space available.
What would you recommend in my case?
Anyone used another windows version that has a better nfs implementation? Maybe 2008 server, or win 8.1?
If all have this issue, i will use iscsi, but i was thinking of going with a sparse file for it, any issues with that?
I'm building a freenas box to use for backup.
Hardwarewise, it's a single xeon L5630, 12 gb ram, intel rs2wc040 hba (drives exported as jbod), 12 x1TB drives (mix of wd blacks, seagate CS, hgst).
I'll be using this as storage for a veeam b&r virtual machine, running windows 7 ultimate.
i wanted to mount the storage in the vm as NFS, but i'm having some performance issues. I do believe the nfs implementation in windows 7 is just bad. I'm getting 30 MB/s read and write from the windows machine to the freenas box using nfs in windows.
If i use iscsi, i get the full gigabit speed (100+ MB/s). Also, if i mount the freenas dataset in the esxi host as NFS, and then create a virtual disk on this datastore for the vm, i also get 100+ MB/s speeds, which means nfs speed is ok, just not windows7 implementation.
I would rather use NFS because i also want to use the storage for other backups, and creating a volume to use with iscsi simply fragments the space available.
What would you recommend in my case?
Anyone used another windows version that has a better nfs implementation? Maybe 2008 server, or win 8.1?
If all have this issue, i will use iscsi, but i was thinking of going with a sparse file for it, any issues with that?