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Hi all,
I was hoping to get some advice on what the minimum performance metrics would need to be on MS storage space drive for Hyper-V. This drive to host multiple VM’s. ( I am aware this may be difficult to answer due to different types of VM’s and applications that run within them )
Our test is running on below server.
Dell R730XD Server – 3.5” 12 Bay
Dual Intel Xeon E5-2690 V4 – 14 Core
Dell Broadcom 5720 Quad Port 1GB NDC
256GB RAM
H730/1GB RAID Controller –
1 x Dell Samsung PM1725a PCI 1.6TB NVMe SSD Drive
3 x ST16000NM001G Seagate Exos X16 3.5" 16000 GB Serial ATA III drives in NON-RAID Model
Storage Space drive setup = 1 x NVME, 2 x 16GB Mechanical VD = Mirror – no tiering. ( we found Tiering so much slower on CDM Tests )
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CrystalDiskMark 8.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2021 hiyohiyo
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes
[Read]
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 270.332 MB/s [ 257.8 IOPS] < 30909.77 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 4.993 MB/s [ 1219.0 IOPS] < 26120.42 us>
[Write]
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 262.337 MB/s [ 250.2 IOPS] < 31697.51 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 20.948 MB/s [ 5114.3 IOPS] < 6242.13 us>
Profile: Peak
Test: 64 GiB (x1) [M: 1% (149/15360GiB)]
Mode: [Admin]
Time: Measure 5 sec / Interval 5 sec
Date: 2021/06/11 10:57:12
OS: Windows Server 2019 Datacenter (Full installation) [10.0 Build 17763] (x64)
We are just not sure these speeds will be adequate for running multiple virtual machines. Also, is there a specific recommended setup on CDM for testing drives that would be hosting virtual machines.
I was hoping to get some advice on what the minimum performance metrics would need to be on MS storage space drive for Hyper-V. This drive to host multiple VM’s. ( I am aware this may be difficult to answer due to different types of VM’s and applications that run within them )
Our test is running on below server.
Dell R730XD Server – 3.5” 12 Bay
Dual Intel Xeon E5-2690 V4 – 14 Core
Dell Broadcom 5720 Quad Port 1GB NDC
256GB RAM
H730/1GB RAID Controller –
1 x Dell Samsung PM1725a PCI 1.6TB NVMe SSD Drive
3 x ST16000NM001G Seagate Exos X16 3.5" 16000 GB Serial ATA III drives in NON-RAID Model
Storage Space drive setup = 1 x NVME, 2 x 16GB Mechanical VD = Mirror – no tiering. ( we found Tiering so much slower on CDM Tests )
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CrystalDiskMark 8.0.2 x64 (C) 2007-2021 hiyohiyo
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
* MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes/s [SATA/600 = 600,000,000 bytes/s]
* KB = 1000 bytes, KiB = 1024 bytes
[Read]
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 270.332 MB/s [ 257.8 IOPS] < 30909.77 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 4.993 MB/s [ 1219.0 IOPS] < 26120.42 us>
[Write]
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 262.337 MB/s [ 250.2 IOPS] < 31697.51 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 20.948 MB/s [ 5114.3 IOPS] < 6242.13 us>
Profile: Peak
Test: 64 GiB (x1) [M: 1% (149/15360GiB)]
Mode: [Admin]
Time: Measure 5 sec / Interval 5 sec
Date: 2021/06/11 10:57:12
OS: Windows Server 2019 Datacenter (Full installation) [10.0 Build 17763] (x64)
We are just not sure these speeds will be adequate for running multiple virtual machines. Also, is there a specific recommended setup on CDM for testing drives that would be hosting virtual machines.
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