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C Performance testing configuration
Although the testing was performed previously, the recommendations remain the same as the architecture
and functionality remain unchanged with regard to these tests. As a result, it was not necessary to re-run the
tests in order to revise this document.
The major hardware components for the test system configuration used throughout this document are:
Test configuration hardware components
Test configuration
Hardware components
1 Gigabit iSCSI initiator
Dell PowerEdge R710 Server:
• 2 x Quad Core Intel® Xeon® X5570 Processors
• 8 M Cache, 2.93 GHz
• 32 GB RAM,
• 2 x 146GB 10K SAS internal disk drives
• Broadcom 5709 1Gb quad-port NIC (LAN on motherboard)
10 Gigabit iSCSI initiator
Dell PowerEdge R710 Server:
• 2 x Quad Core Intel® Xeon® X5570 Processors
• 8 M Cache, 2.93 GHz
• 32 GB RAM
• 2 x 146 GB 10K SAS internal disk drives
• Broadcom NetXtreme II 57711 10Gb NIC, Dual-Port
Network
2 x Dell Dell Networking N3000 Series 1Gb Ethernet Switch
2 x Dell Dell Networking N4000 Series 10Gb Ethernet Switch
Storage
Dell PS Series PS6000E:
• 16 x 450GB SATA disks with dual 4 port 1 Gb controllers
• Configured as RAID 10, with two hot spares
Dell PS Series PS6010E:
• 16 x 450GB SATA disks with dual 2 port 10 Gb controllers
• Configured as RAID 10, with two hot spares
The major software components for the test system configuration used throughout this document are:
Test configuration software components
Test configuration
Software components
Initiators
Windows 2008 R2 Server
• MS iSCSI Initiator
• PS Series Host Integration Toolkit
• VDBench version 5.0.2 IO Generation software
Monitoring tools
• PS Series SAN Headquarters version 2.0
• EQL_Monitor: Dell developed PERL-based monitoring script
• PerfMon