I noticed when creating the windows 10 VM my ram went from using 4Gbs to 6Gbs not a big deal. Then when i installed plex on the VM it jumped to 8gbs used still no need for concern. But when I did a test of moving about 10GBs of anime over to the VM from my local machine the RAM went up to 14GBs so I thought it's writing from RAM. so i let the transfer finish got 90 mbs transfer speeds which i was expecting. Using 1gb NIC's on both esxi and freenas, the RAM never came back down it stayed at 14Gbs. I had to reboot the freeNAS box for memory usage to go back to 4Gbs. i did wait roughly 30 minutes before i rebooted to see if it would come down and it did not move. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
My setup currently is using the freenas as a datastore for my esxi box I'm doing this using iSCSI. Yesterday took me half a day to get that working correctly. My nas is a total of 10TBs usable in raidz-2. I made the iSCSI 5TB. My over all plan was to use 4TBs of that as a Plex server on windows 10 as a VM on esxi. When building my box i knew this was the route i was attempting to take. I found that for iSCSI i should use a SLOG. My issue is i was completely unsure how to add a SLOG and was using a 250GB Samsung evo 840 for this but I'm not sure i set it up right. When I created my pool for raidz-2 i just used the log option and added the ssd as the device for that was that correct?
I'm new to freenas and I bought all my hardware on recommendations from here. My box is a single Xeon e3-1230 on a supermicro X9SCM-F with 16 GBs of unbuffered ECC Ram using a HBA 9207-8i in IT mode powered by a seasonic 750w gold focus PSU.
TDLR- New to freeNAS, eSXI 6.5 using iSCSI for datastore from FreeNAS. Not sure SLOG is setup correctly and seeing high ram on freenas when using VM on ESXi.
My setup currently is using the freenas as a datastore for my esxi box I'm doing this using iSCSI. Yesterday took me half a day to get that working correctly. My nas is a total of 10TBs usable in raidz-2. I made the iSCSI 5TB. My over all plan was to use 4TBs of that as a Plex server on windows 10 as a VM on esxi. When building my box i knew this was the route i was attempting to take. I found that for iSCSI i should use a SLOG. My issue is i was completely unsure how to add a SLOG and was using a 250GB Samsung evo 840 for this but I'm not sure i set it up right. When I created my pool for raidz-2 i just used the log option and added the ssd as the device for that was that correct?
I'm new to freenas and I bought all my hardware on recommendations from here. My box is a single Xeon e3-1230 on a supermicro X9SCM-F with 16 GBs of unbuffered ECC Ram using a HBA 9207-8i in IT mode powered by a seasonic 750w gold focus PSU.
TDLR- New to freeNAS, eSXI 6.5 using iSCSI for datastore from FreeNAS. Not sure SLOG is setup correctly and seeing high ram on freenas when using VM on ESXi.
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