TrueNAS Mini X+ | iSCSI Performance with VMWare ESXi

Interested in how well the TrueNAS Mini-X+ NAS would work as an iSCSI target for your VMware ESXi virtual infrastructure? Then this is the video for you! Hot off the heals of our last video on the #TrueNAS Mini-X+ NAS, we wanted to dig deeper into what sorta performance this little NAS could bring to our #homelab as an iSCSI datastore server for our VMware ESXi virtual host. In this video, we quickly run through the setup and connectivity between a single ESXi virtual host and TrueNAS on the Mini-X+, migrate a VM over to it and run a few synthetic storage performance tests. If you’re looking to see what TrueNAS can do for your VMware virtual infrastructure using 10Gig Ethernet.

If you’re interested in TrueNAS or iXsystems (the creators of TrueNAS), head over here: https://www.truenas.com/ & https://www.ixsystems.com/

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**TIMESTAMPS!**
0:00 Introduction
0:40 Our test vDev setup
1:03 Our ZVOL and iSCSI setup
2:00 Our ESXi iSCSI setup
2:27 Do you want a video on how to setup ESXi and iSCSI? Tell us!
2:36 The synthetic test setup
2:57 Sequential 1MB block, queue depth of 8 read/write test results
3:26 Sequential 1MB block, queue depth of 1 read/write test results
3:39 Random 4KB block, queue depth of 32 read/write test results
4:16 Random 4KB block, queue depth of 1 read/write test results
4:38 Final thoughts and insights
5:03 Thanks for watching! Subscribe already!

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