Hi All!
Just installed 6.7 on Supermicro X9SCM-F board and so far everything is working fine except disk speed/performance. I have one SSD and one regular 3.5" HDD on this homelab.
If I try to copy something to/from any of the disk, a 8-9 GB file takes between 5-20 mins and sometimes even fail to copy. During this slow copies I noticed that the server page even slows down and become unresponsive at times.
I have tried disabling vmk_ahci module using this (esxcli system module set --enabled=false --module=vmw_ahci) and it seems to take away the fail to copy but still very slow performance.
This is what I am getting when looking for the available modules:
[root@VMware:~] esxcli software vib list | grep ahci
sata-ahci 3.0-26vmw.670.0.0.8169922 VMW VMwareCertified 2018-09-01
vmw-ahci 1.2.0-6vmw.670.0.0.8169922 VMW VMwareCertified 2018-09-01
One thing I noticed is that when vmk-ahci is disabled, the new driver is "ahci" instead of "sata_ahci" I saw some other posts related to 6.5 when dealing with slow disk performance.
Can someone be kind to point me in the right direction?
Thanks in advance!
joedr