Solved: Very slow speed on SSD |VMware Communities (via “Building a lab with ESXI and Vagrant – DarthSidious”)
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/05/11
Via [WayBack] Building a lab with ESXI and Vagrant – DarthSidious while researching the possibility of running Vagrant (software) – Wikipedia on VMware ESXi – Wikipedia for building and distributing development environments:
[WayBack] Solved: Very slow speed on SSD |VMware Communities “solution” that seems to work for ESXi 6.5 and 6.7:
ESXi 6.5 includes a new native driver (
vmw_ahci) for SATA AHCI controllers, but that introduces performance problems with a lot of controllers and/or disks.Try to disable the native driver and revert to the older
sata-ahcidriver by runningesxcli system module set --enabled=false --module=vmw_ahciin an ESXi shell.
Reboot the host to make the change effective.
which solves it for some who now get much faster results:
Your suggestion worked for me, now i am getting avg speed 250Mbps from SATA III SSD .
Hope will get the full I/Ops from SSD.
However:
One issue I still have is that my 4 port Syba PCIe controller card now vanishes after disabling vmw_ahci and I am restricted to using the SATA ports on the motherboard.
and you need backups:
WARNING: Doing this at least for me erases all the VMs on the aforementioned drive. Migrate as needed.
There was no response for a more permanent fix:
What is the permanent fix for this issue, should we expect a corrected native driver from VMware, or will this require a firmware upgrade on the part of the drive vendors?
and there seem to be other bottle-necks:
tried the command on a 6.7.
Deploying an OVA and I am getting 22.82….
I have a Samsung 860 EVO mSATA 1Tb SSD.
i re-enabled it, I got max 11.81.
Kind of crappy either way. Not SSD speeds IMO.
–jeroen
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