In the past I have used VMWare VMs but usually avoided them due to how much slower they run compared to bare metal OS.
Until a few years ago that is. Those new M.2 drives came out and I bought two of them, with a PCIExpress card to mount them (and not get SATA bottlenecks). Put the two drives in Raid 0 setup (OS level was fine) and put my whole VM directory onto that SSD. My goodness the performance boost was incredible. My first setup like this got the max reads up to around 2200 Mb/sec (roughly, going by memory here). Compared to the SSD my desktop had it in, it was doing about 280Mb/sec so close to ten times faster. It makes a difference. My current M.2 drives are the Samsung 960 Pros. About to swap out two smaller drives (256Gb each) for two larger ones in my new laptop. (2 x 1Tb) Glen mentioned defragging hard drives so that hints no SSD's being used there. Greg, what kind of drive is your VM on? Move to SSD/M.2 even if you fix the Windows 10 speed issue you have. Even if it costs you. When you use this stuff day in and day out, it's worth spending a bit of money for some sanity (and time!!). cheers Stephen ________________________________ From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com <ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> on behalf of Glen Harvy <g...@aquarius.com.au> Sent: Wednesday, 17 May 2017 9:14:39 AM To: ozdotnet@ozdotnet.com Subject: Re: [OT] WMWare slow Windows 10 I'm still on vmware 11.1.4 and noticed a substantial slowdown with Win10 immediately after the last windows update. To try and fix I removed heaps of snapshots that I had failed to get rid of and then defragged the win10 installation. I then defragged the drive the host drive. Loading has improved and the performance has noticeably improved. glen
