Hi all, first post here.
I have a lab computer at the house for learning and working with ESXi. Currently running 6.5. It's an older but still powerful tower, i7-2600k, 32GB RAM. I was using a 2TB HDD for ESXi but found it a bit slow, so purchased an SSD (Crucial MX300, 525GB). I reinstalled 6.5 from scratch onto the SSD as the only storage in the computer.
But now I am finding that this SSD is much slower in performance with ESXi than the regular spinny hard drive was. Trying to migrate VMs from Workstation 12 to ESXi 6.5 over my gigabit network is painfully slow. It was kinda slow with the HDD but is way slower with the SSD. I have also attempted to create a new VM using a Windows 10 x64 ISO that is in the datastore. This process was also very slow. It took about 40 minutes on the "Getting files ready for installation" stage. I would have expected that to be done in less than 5 minutes. I checked and CPU and RAM are at very low usage levels yet the VM creation is dragging horribly. Somehow ESXi's interaction with the SSD is crazy slow.
I have two NICs in the machine, an on-board Intel 82579v, but to rule out problems with that, I also purchased an Intel CT Gigabit PCI express adapter which is widely regarded as very compatible with all recent versions of ESXi. no change to the speed.
So here's what I've tried so far:
Checked in Storage that ESXi is recognizing the device as an SSD (it is).
Tried both NICs, no difference between the two
Tested creating a VM on the host with the only traffic going off the box being to my instance of VMware workstation 12 on my main PC, for control/monitoring only. VERY slow.
I've looked through the forums and there isn't much about SSDs so I am hoping that someone who has come up against this issue and overcome it can tell me what's wrong here.
Thanks!
