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High storage latency on ESXi host (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been going back and forth with this issue for some time but honestly I have no idea if the vCenter telemetry is something to rely on. I'm experiencing rather high latency on the storage on my VMs, most of them idle, only vCenter and virtual firewall generate some IOPS, 5 are shut down, other 3 VMs are linux machines that idle for 99%, even though they can spike 100ms per IO. Today I have decided to migrate a VM storage to another server to find that higher disk utilization reduces the latency on the host, how that makes any sense? I'm using P420 in RAID 10 with 4x4TB 7k SAS HDDs.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I had the same issue, only using a 930-8i w/ 2M cache. Honestly performance sucked on all of my VMs. I reinstalled the server with Rocky Linux 8.8 and KVM using the same array and performance was acceptable (the array was configured as a LVM volume). I then added a NVMe drive as a LVM cache and performance was much better (good enough for my homelab). Too bad, since I really prefer VMware.