is there a white paper comparing them? Like what exactly is slow, metadata operations, random 4k read/write, etc... It would be great to understand the differences. I would like to play with is as POC and compare to storage spaces direct in Windows to see if it would make more sense to use Starwind ...

I'm doing some research about using 2x nodes with linux bare metal and ZFS, for hosting VMs from proxmox, but reading some posts here it seems ZFS is not recommended for VMs due to performance issues, which I'm a bit puzzled as Proxmox does ZFS natively and I don't see that being a problem. I would ...

Hi guys,

I've been travelling for the last 5 weeks so I was checking things here on my spare time in the evenings

Anyway, I'll touch base with your support, I've done a massive amount of testing over the last few days so we can see if performance can be improved.

Thanks!

I unmounted the datastore, left about 4-5 hours running and still was having data being read from disks on the storage node every few seconds. It was reading the thindisks (files) about 10 of them at time at around 500mb/sec, no writes. I deleted the disk from virtual san and the reads stopped. I ra...

I'm also trying it with flat disks, not really much if any difference.

What do you guys advise me doing?

With LSFS, using a 30TB disk in raid-10 with 384GB ram and 2TB NVME ssd L2, I vmotion one VM of 180GB, it is completely written to RAM, after a while when the move is finished virtual san starts writting to disk at very slow rate of 200-300mb/sec bursts like 300, then stops, then 300 agian and stops...

I've done some more testing, flat disk, LSFS and RAMDISK. I'm not really finding the performance anything like what it should be in theory. I can't get it why on a 10GB network you can only use about 50% of bandwidth with a RAMDISK, what could I be doing wrong here? What should be the result? If you...

Hi guys, I decided to give Virtual SAN a try now as last time I looked into it I didn't have the time to spend playing with it and checking if it was good enough for production use in my case. I have a small VMware environment where I use some storage boxes and local storage and I was hoping to repl...