Farm Infrastructure Issues - Seeking Input

[WolfGT]

@Jacek

Although, I kind of fail to see the advantage of using VMWare to split the box for instance in separate harvesters. If all VMClients on such VMHost can work as advertised, just one system should also handle all connected resources.

I can speak to this because I have 3 harvesters running as vm’s on one system. The reason is speed. For some reason when a Chia harvester is given multiple remote locations, it runs dramatically slower. It must have to do with it opening and closing connection between resources. But if you assign one harvester to each remote set of drives, it runs great. Even if you have multiple harvesters on the same system.

Here is a thread I did on this setup:

Virtual Harvesters test

This is a test of how well a dedicated harvester per NAS works running in a VM. I’m not talking about a remote havester loaded on each NAS. All of them on the same computer along with the Full Node. Spoiler alert, so far it works great. First a quick look at my hardware and some history. Hardware 2 dedicated plotting systems 2 Synology DS1817 NAS 1 Netgear ReadyNAS 424 1 desktop running full node and hyper-v History When I originally started plotting I had two NAS online and each plotter …

But the bottom line was: 1 harvester with multiple remote drive arrays = very poor performance, 1 harvester per remote drive array = great. Even if those harvesters were on the same system.