Mackintire
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My company has a Dell Equal Logic PS5000 with dual gigabit connections.
Only one of the nic s are connected at the moment.
It is connected via ISCSI to a VMware 4.0 file server Server 2008 R2 .
The PS5000 is running firmware version 5.0.2
I'm seeing 70MB writes and 30MB reads.
Is this thing supposed to have this crappy level of performance?
We own it but its a purchased server from our hosting provider. They manage the entire thing. The Engineer there is asking me what would I expect to see.
I said I expect to see line speed, close to 100MBps
Frankly, I would accept 70MBps read and write, as at least then I could have them connect up the second nic and configure the VM to use MPIO and THEN I might actually see 140MBps.
Dell says the PS4000 should see 100-110MBps on one gigabit connection.
I have zero SAN experience so I would like some thoughts from all of you.
Only one of the nic s are connected at the moment.
It is connected via ISCSI to a VMware 4.0 file server Server 2008 R2 .
The PS5000 is running firmware version 5.0.2
I'm seeing 70MB writes and 30MB reads.
Is this thing supposed to have this crappy level of performance?
We own it but its a purchased server from our hosting provider. They manage the entire thing. The Engineer there is asking me what would I expect to see.
I said I expect to see line speed, close to 100MBps
Frankly, I would accept 70MBps read and write, as at least then I could have them connect up the second nic and configure the VM to use MPIO and THEN I might actually see 140MBps.
Dell says the PS4000 should see 100-110MBps on one gigabit connection.
I have zero SAN experience so I would like some thoughts from all of you.