Re: IO Performance under VMware on LSI RAID controller

2013-09-24 Thread Ivan Voras
On 20/09/2013 15:08, Guy Helmer wrote: On Sep 19, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Guy Helmer guy.hel...@gmail.com wrote: Normally I build VMware ESXi servers with enterprise-class WD SATA drives and I/O performance in FreeBSD VMs on the servers is fine. Whenever I build a VMware ESXi server with a RAID

Re: IO Performance under VMware on LSI RAID controller

2013-09-20 Thread Guy Helmer
On Sep 19, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Guy Helmer guy.hel...@gmail.com wrote: Normally I build VMware ESXi servers with enterprise-class WD SATA drives and I/O performance in FreeBSD VMs on the servers is fine. Whenever I build a VMware ESXi server with a RAID controller, IO performance is awful in

IO Performance under VMware on LSI RAID controller

2013-09-19 Thread Guy Helmer
Normally I build VMware ESXi servers with enterprise-class WD SATA drives and I/O performance in FreeBSD VMs on the servers is fine. Whenever I build a VMware ESXi server with a RAID controller, IO performance is awful in FreeBSD VMs. I've previously seen this effect with VMware ESXi 3ware