Hi
I’ve been using VMs on my laptop using VirtualBox and recently decided to try VMs on my TVS-672XT 8GB (but they were quite slow and unresponsive – couldn’t even watch youtube it was v.choppy).
After reading around it seems that to improve VM performance I need to:
-Install more memory (to 32GB / 64GB)
-Install x2 M.2 SSDs (RAID 1) to create storage pool for VMs
-Install a new graphics card that supports pass-through
-(maybe?) Install M.2 SSD for a caching pool (I read somewhere it should be x4 RAM)?
I have two main questions:
1) If upgraded (as above), how feasible would it be to successfully run Adobe Suite apps (excluding video editing) on my NAS using a Windows VM - or is the i3 simply too underpowered?
2) If it were feasible…
(i) Any specific brand preferences/recommendations for RAM, M.2 SSDs, Graphics Card?
(ii) Does make any diff. where the SSD cache / SSD RAID is located e.g. internal slots vs QM2 card?
Hardware upgrades to improve Virtual Machine performance?
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Hardware upgrades to improve Virtual Machine performance?
TVS-672XT (8Gb)
Firmware: Version 5.0.0.1850
Seagate Iron Wolf drives (raid 5)
Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe™ M.2 SSD (raid 1) [for system + vms]
Firmware: Version 5.0.0.1850
Seagate Iron Wolf drives (raid 5)
Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe™ M.2 SSD (raid 1) [for system + vms]
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Re: Hardware upgrades to improve Virtual Machine performance?
Cool. I've seen people in the community and on yt installing 64GB which seem to work fine (and QNAP now posts "up to 64GB" on their website https://www.qnap.com/en/product/tvs-672 ... s/hardware )
I'm running Seagate Iron Wolfs 12TB RAID 5 which is where I have the storage pool for the system. However, after getting some M.2 SSDs I'd like to move the system onto this - others report this is faster. I will be interested to hear how you get on. Are you running a graphics card with pass-through?
Since posting I've read about people successfully upgrading to the i7-8700t ( viewtopic.php?f=182&t=159197&p=793834&h ... i7#p793834 ) and someone who upgraded to the i9-9900k for VM gaming (viewtopic.php?f=191&t=151376&hilit=i9+vm+gaming ).
Thanks for reply and any testing you do.
I'm running Seagate Iron Wolfs 12TB RAID 5 which is where I have the storage pool for the system. However, after getting some M.2 SSDs I'd like to move the system onto this - others report this is faster. I will be interested to hear how you get on. Are you running a graphics card with pass-through?
Since posting I've read about people successfully upgrading to the i7-8700t ( viewtopic.php?f=182&t=159197&p=793834&h ... i7#p793834 ) and someone who upgraded to the i9-9900k for VM gaming (viewtopic.php?f=191&t=151376&hilit=i9+vm+gaming ).
Thanks for reply and any testing you do.
TVS-672XT (8Gb)
Firmware: Version 5.0.0.1850
Seagate Iron Wolf drives (raid 5)
Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe™ M.2 SSD (raid 1) [for system + vms]
Firmware: Version 5.0.0.1850
Seagate Iron Wolf drives (raid 5)
Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe™ M.2 SSD (raid 1) [for system + vms]