>We started with 16x 1TB disks and 16GB of RAM. Type of Drives, did you have a L2 ARC and ZIL... There are alot of reasons why you may have needed the additi

>We started with 16x 1TB disks and 16GB of RAM. Type of Drives, did you have a L2 ARC and ZIL... There are alot of reasons why you may have needed the additional ram. If you were using off the Shelf 7200 (or worse 5400) NAS drives then I am not shocked, these drives are for storage not for VM's. need atleast 10K drives for VM storage >Definitely not hyped as you said in the enterprise space - think some home users see that warning of 1GB per 1TB though and get put off. It still kinda is, but 90% of the questions I see posted in various places are about Home and Test Labs, not Enterprise Deployments. you do not need 32GB of RAM for your home file server that is likely serving less than 10 clients.