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Written on 09/13/2016 23:04:11

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Comment written by BW on 09/14/2016 06:43:19

What brand/model quad NICs do you use?

How is the performance of the Synology DS2015xs?

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Comment written by Myles Gray on 09/14/2016 09:11:07

Just the onboard Dell NICs, they're Intel I believe. 2015xs is killing it, hasn't skipped a beat with 40+ VMs running concurrently, latencies consistently very low, all good.

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Comment written by BW on 09/14/2016 12:50:00

Oh thats interesting to hear re the Synology 2015xs . I read that the Annapurna CPU couldn't keep up with the 10Gb NIC speeds? I was seriously considering the 2015xs as its the only affordable 10Gb SAN for home that I know of but was concerned about the non-Intel CPU being a bottleneck. I also wanted to run about 40VMs. Whats disks do you use in what RAID configutation?

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Comment written by Myles Gray on 09/14/2016 18:01:56

I can't comment on the 10GbE yet as I have just taken delivery of the 3064PQ as above, when I do i'll be sure to update :)

I have 6x HGST Ultrastar 7k4000 disks with an SSD RAID1 cache in front.

Currently running about 40 active VMs, not a problem on 1GbE.

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Comment written by Josh Roberts on 09/15/2016 02:41:31

What kind of a connection do you have coming into the house?

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Comment written by Myles Gray on 09/15/2016 06:31:33

Just a normal BT business fiber connection

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Comment written by Josh Roberts on 09/15/2016 06:33:01

Well that can be anything from 3mbps all the way to 100gbps

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Comment written by Myles Gray on 09/15/2016 06:40:44

70/10Mbps