Hello folks.
Here is my set up;
Dell T110ii - E3-1220, 16Gb RAM wtih lates BIOS and firmware.
PERC H700(latest firmware) with 3 - 600GB SAS drives and 1 - 300GB SAS drive on the same channel.
So, 3-600GB drives are configures as RAID 5 with WB enabled. 300gb drive is a startup drive, on the same channel as 3 other drives and configured as a separate VD.
I use 300Gb drive to load ESXi.
When creating VM and using datastore on RAID5 partition WIN2012R2 performs very slow.
It took almost 2hrs to install, and after it was finally got installed, performance is very sluggish.
As a test, I also used H200 controller. While installing OS on VM went fast, working with windows was unbearable.
Am I doing something wrong here? How do I configure server for optimal performance? Is PERC H700 having performance issues with ESXi?
Thanks