Recent content by geriksen

Have latest firmware... And i know it should always be updated, but thx!

1. We only use Vmware, but it depends on the type of workload in the VMs you mean right? Haven't found out what to use in a vmware only environment... 2. I'm aware of the different raid levels but mean the physical placement i the storage like 8+1 should be placed in slot 1-9 and hotspare in...

We have a couple of these SANs with dual controller and 512 Mb cache. We also have a Exp3000 connected to each of them. Finally we have 7 vSphere 4.1 hosts connected to them. Here are my questions: 1. Should we use 16kb or 32kb cache size setting for the storage sub system? 2. Do the...

Thanks, guys! Seems like a good role of thumb regarding 4 VMs pr spindle, but today I have a RAID5 (6+1) + Hotspare on 1 LUN with 43 VMs spread out on 3 ESX hosts... and seems like it's no problem, but maybe not optimal. But, Sabregen, could it be abit low number pr spindle? Do you know why...

SpaceHonkey; You said "align your partitions (in the VMs)" is important, but what's the easiest way to do this for Windows Servers? Do this also apply to the System vDisk? Read some place that this wasn't necessary on the system drive, but that's sounds wrong... I usually create 3 vDisk for...

Thanks guys for excellent input and thoughts! But, I'm still confused.. or exceptional slow... ;-) Here are some more input and questions: 1. Maybe I was not clear enough... We have 2 DS3400 w/dual controllers, that I want to have exact same setup regarding spindles, because of load and...

Was following a earlier thread this year (http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1401841), and was hoping someone could clear some things up regarding best performance tuning for DS3400 with VMware. We have the following: 2 pcs. IBM DS3400 w/dual controller and 512Mb cache. 300Gb 15K SAS...