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13 BP1038| Best Practices and Guidelines for Integrating the Dell EqualLogic FS7600 and FS7610 into an Existing SAN
Figure 2 Logical diagram for separate or shared pool
The tests started with only block clients and scaled up from 2 to 16 clients. Then the tests were repeated
with CIFS and NFS clients to verify that each set of clients would scale as expected. Next, the file clients
were configured for NFS access and tests were run with both block and file I/O at the same time. Then
block heavy scenarios were run that consisted of 67% block hosts and 33% NFS file clients. Then the mix
was reversed to a file heavy scenario where 67% of the hosts were doing NFS file I/O and 33% of the
clients were doing block I/O. These tests were first run with a single, shared storage pool (with eight
arrays) then they were repeated with two pools, each containing four arrays (see Figure 2).