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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Transfer
Request
Size
Percent
Random/
Sequential
Distribution
Percent
Read/Write
Distribution
Why this
specification
matters
Typical results for
3 DL320s SAS in
RAID 5 with 2 way
replication Your test results
MB/s IOPS MB/s IOPS
64K 50% Random 50% Write
50% Read
This
specification
is similar to a
heavily used
file share
38 600
4K 100% Random 20% Write
80% Read
This
specification
is similar to a
Microsoft™
Exchange
Database
23 6000
8K 100% Random 33% Write
67% Read
This
specification
is similar to a
Transactional
Database
33 4200
4K 100%
Sequential
100% Write This
specification
is similar to a
Microsoft™
Exchange
log files
34 8700
64K 100%
Sequential
100% Read This
specification
is similar to a
backup of
data from the
ISCSI SAN
110 1700