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where are the vmware experts for ISCSI optimazation and performance ?

These are the results http://www.starwindsoftware.com/forums/starwind-f5/extreme-home-lab-with-starwind-t2395-15.html The local speed of the san is: SAN2 RAID50 Local Speed test using SQLIO for all read/write seq and random 64k block creating a file of 5GB. Running multiple tests taking...

yeah it`s not the MPIO switch rate I think it`s something else maybe delay act...

no ..using MPIO . I have a ram disk target on SAN2 and testing from a windows host and indeed i get 450MB/s ..So no network problem here...something else...

sdelete for windows works good

Hi everyone, I have this crazy home lab which will create a different topic later on with 3 esx hosts and 2 sans. Each host and each SAN uses 4 nics.. the quad intel ET GB ports. I am trying to achive max performance for ISCSI traffic between the SANs(iSCSI targets) and my ESX hosts (iSCSI...

whats so new in WHS2011 ?

not really.... i don`t have space for a second ssd... i only have 16 ports.. and 15 drives so one left..

I already know this thinks .I want to see if I can have one large 20TB disk with one MBR partition and one GPT partition. Thanks !

Hi Guys, I have an Adaptec ICP5165BR with the latest firmware and I tried to create more than 1 array. I called them up and apparently this is not possible because of the firmware and they wont have a new one because it`s retired. So fine I used all 15 2TB disk to create a raid 50 of 20* TB...

Did a laptop last night no issues 2 desktop today this same issue 80200053 PROBLEM: went with the readiness thing fails at 15, 24%... will update everyone. WAIT.. it worked after failing 4..5 times... it worked after that tool and this time I RDP in instead of using bomgar.

Hi guys, I been going crazy. I bough a used Adaptec 31605 controller with 16 ports, latest firmware. Connected to the backplanes of Noroco 4220. Intel Core 2 Duo 2.9Gh, 2G RAM DDR2, PCI-E 8x. So the story begins: Scenario 1: 5 drives 2TB each Samsung F4 Eco Green raid 0, raid 5 no...

thanks guys , thanks kxy for that nice link very good price. Are those IBM cards LSI 1068E chips ...actually I might purchase those anyways but it would be great if they have drivers for OpenSolaris :)

wow guys, you are amazing. you know so much about storage/raid and unix/linux systems. Great :) Now I would come with another easy question for you which I already think I made a mistake but yeah.. So here is the scenario. I had to build for my client a fast and reliable RAID for VMware...

Wow lots of good info submessa. Thanks a lot I am starting to like ZFS more than my Adaptec 52445 controler. Is there any SAS controler/non raid with more than 2 mini-sas ports..lets say 5..6 so that I just install one board and can connect all 5 backpanels from Noroco 4220 ? But it has to...