Hello, I am new here I have been digging into this for over a week and haven't gotten anywhere, I was hoping someone could look this over and see if i am being stupid
My setup
Freenas 9.10 stable
Core i3-4370
Supermicro MBD-X10SLH-F-O
32gb DDR3 ECC
intel VT quad port pcie nic
2x LSI 9210-81 firmware 20
16gb corsair flash drive for OS
10x4tb seagate 5900rpm
5x2tb WD Re4 7200rpm
procurve V1920-24g - storage switch
procurve 1810-8g - vmotion switch
3com managed 24g lan switch
no slog/l2arc drives
network configurations I tested
freenas single 1gb connection to procurve
freenas 4x1gb lagg to procurve
freenas 2x1gb lagg for NFS 2x1gb lagg for iSCSi
all clients are single 1gb connections
esxi servers have 2x1gb connections for storage
All nics are intel single or quad
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NFS shares
1 - 5x4tb - Plex storage - 12tb used raidz
2 - 5x4tb - ESXi Slow storage - 1tb used raidz
Tried both NFS/iSCSi
3 - 5x2tb - ESXi Fast storage - 0% used raidz
All testing was done with the fast storage, I started out having it setup as NFS and then switched it to iSCSi I would prefer to use NFS if i can get a decent speed out of it.
I have a hardware raid running on one of my esxi hosts i am using for testing as well.
All tests were done with iostat
If I copy from:
hardware raid to the NFS fast storage - 14mb/s per drive
from desktop to NFS using esxi datastore browser - .07mb/s per drive
I have tried a few other tests from various machines i can never get higher than 15mb/s
Other things I tried:
Turning off sync didn't make a difference
Switching from NFS to iSCSi for fast storage didn't make a difference.
I can pick up some ZIL and SLOG drives but based on everything I have been reading it doesn't seem like I should need them.
Any input is appreciated.
My setup
Freenas 9.10 stable
Core i3-4370
Supermicro MBD-X10SLH-F-O
32gb DDR3 ECC
intel VT quad port pcie nic
2x LSI 9210-81 firmware 20
16gb corsair flash drive for OS
10x4tb seagate 5900rpm
5x2tb WD Re4 7200rpm
procurve V1920-24g - storage switch
procurve 1810-8g - vmotion switch
3com managed 24g lan switch
no slog/l2arc drives
network configurations I tested
freenas single 1gb connection to procurve
freenas 4x1gb lagg to procurve
freenas 2x1gb lagg for NFS 2x1gb lagg for iSCSi
all clients are single 1gb connections
esxi servers have 2x1gb connections for storage
All nics are intel single or quad
-----------------------------------------------
NFS shares
1 - 5x4tb - Plex storage - 12tb used raidz
2 - 5x4tb - ESXi Slow storage - 1tb used raidz
Tried both NFS/iSCSi
3 - 5x2tb - ESXi Fast storage - 0% used raidz
All testing was done with the fast storage, I started out having it setup as NFS and then switched it to iSCSi I would prefer to use NFS if i can get a decent speed out of it.
I have a hardware raid running on one of my esxi hosts i am using for testing as well.
All tests were done with iostat
If I copy from:
hardware raid to the NFS fast storage - 14mb/s per drive
from desktop to NFS using esxi datastore browser - .07mb/s per drive
I have tried a few other tests from various machines i can never get higher than 15mb/s
Other things I tried:
Turning off sync didn't make a difference
Switching from NFS to iSCSi for fast storage didn't make a difference.
I can pick up some ZIL and SLOG drives but based on everything I have been reading it doesn't seem like I should need them.
Any input is appreciated.
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