Virtual Machine with direct Storage Access
2021-05-01
Business Case My QNAP-NAS (TS-431X2) is slow this must not be QNAPs fault, maybe the drives (4 disks, RAID5, between 147..167 MB/second for sequential read) are the root cause adding a SSD-Cache didn’t improve performance when I had a 3-disk RAID 5 many people around the world are troubleshooting this without success so I decided to use the QNAP-NAS as a Virtual-Tape-Library for Backup-Purposes etc use my ESXi-Host as Storage-Server „Storage Server“ VM I regularily use „Nested ESXi“-Hosts for Lab Environments which should access the storage, so I decided to first give NFS a try – ESXi has no built in NFS-Server, so a smallRead More →