HP LeftHand SAN Solutions Support Document - Application Notes - Best Practices for Enabling Microsoft Windows with SAN/iQ®
Table Of Contents
- Application Notes Best Practices for Enabling Microsoft Windows with SANiQ
- Contents
- 1 Chapter: Enabling LeftHand SAN volumes with the Microsoft™ iSCSI 2.0x Initiator
- 2 Chapter: Finding the iSCSI Initiator Version
- 3 Chapter: LeftHand Networks and Microsoft™ MPIO Support
- 4 Chapter: Expanding a Windows Volume on the SAN
- 5 Chapter: Shrinking a Windows Volume on the SAN
- 6 Chapter: Setting the Windows Disk Partition Offset for Optimal Performance
- 7 Chapter: Ensure That Application Resources on iSCSI Volumes Come Online After a Server Reboot
- 8 Chapter: Microsoft™ iSCSI Initiator Session Timeout Setting
- 9 Chapter: Measuring Performance in a Windows Environment
- Overview
- Using Windows Performance Monitor to Measure SAN Performance
- Setting up Windows Performance Monitor
- Saving a Performance Monitor Log for Analysis
- Monitoring More Than One Server Simultaneously
- Scheduling Performance Data Collection
- Using IOMeter as a SAN Benchmark Tool
- Configuring the ISCSI Volume
- Configuring IOMeter
- Configuring IOMeter Access Specification for each Test
- Running the Test
- Interpreting Results
- Access Specifications to Run
- 10 Chapter: Frequently Asked Questions
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Note: Performance logs can be quite large; however, they do compress
nicely using a tool such as WinZip.
Using IOMeter as a SAN Benchmark Tool
IOMeter is a performance benchmark application that can generate
customizable I/O loads against disk devices to measure performance. IOMeter
is an Open Source software package contributed by Intel to the Open Source
Development Lab. The OSDL and individuals within the community now
maintain the package. As the IOMeter User's Guide says, IOMeter is an I/O
subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered
systems.
The software is available from http://www.IOMeter.org/or
http://sourceforge.net/projects/IOMeter/. Download and install
theWin32 version of IOMeter on the Windows server that will be used to
generate the I/O load.