Hello everyone! I came across your forum trying to find a solution to a problem I am having with my server and I thought I'd make a post and see if anyone here has any ideas.
Here is my setup:
Motherboard - ASRock 970 Extreme4
CPU - AMD FX-8320
Memory - 32GB (G.SKill Ripjaws X Series 4 x 8GB DDR3 1600 PC3 12800 (F3-1600C9Q-32GXM)
Drive Controller - IBM M1015 flashed to LSI SAS2008
NIC - Intel PRO/1000 Dual Port Server Adapter (disabled the onboard Realtek NIC)
On the M1015, I'm running 3 4TB Seagate NAS ST4000VN000 drives, 2 3TB Seagate drives (not sure the version) and 2 2TB Western Digital Green Drives. I have a couple 256GB SSDs and a 750GB WD plugged into the controllers on the motherboard.
Here's how the VM's breakout:
WHS2011 - 8GB RAM, 4 cores (1 socket), passed through the M1015 (with its 8 disks) and it has two virtual disks (1 on an SSD for the OS, one on the 750GB for torrents). I am running StableBit DrivePool. I was running FlexRAID (tried SnapRAID too), but I'll get to that later
Windows 7 VM - hosts an Emby server and I use this for playing around - 8GB Ram, 4 cores (1 socket), 1 Virtual disk on an SSD
Windows 7VM 2 - hosts a Plex Server - 8GB Ram, 4 cores (1 socket), 1 Virtual disk on an SSD
Windows Xp VM - 1GB Ram, 1 cores, 1 virtual disk on SSD (not usually running)
