Simple, Reliable Performance for iSCSI Connectivity

Simple, Reliable Performance for iSCSI Connectivity
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Test Conguration: Iometer v. 2006.7.27, number of managers = 10 (1/VM), number of workers/manager = 5, (total number of workers) = 50, number of LUNs/worker = 1, number of
outstanding I/Os = 90, IO size = 512B-1MB, MTU = 1500.
SUT: Intel® Shadycove, Intel
®
Xeon
®
processor W5580 (8 M Cache, 3.20 GHz, 6.40 GT/s Intel® QPI), Memory - 24 GB DDR3, BIOS - S5500.86B.01.10.0038, Windows Server* 2008 R2
x64, 10 VMs with 2 GB allocated RAM.
Network Conguration: Cisco Nexus* 5020, Niantic 82599EB Connected @ 10 Gbps.
Storage: Starwind 4.0 iSCSI Soft Target connected @ 10 Gbps.
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Test Conguration: Iometer 2004.07.30, number of managers = 1, total number of workers = 12, number of LUNs/worker = 1, number of outstanding I/Os = 4, IO size = 512B-64K, MTU = 1500.
SUT: Intel
®
Xeon
®
processor 5300 series (8 M Cache, 3.0 GHz), Memory – 8 GB 667MHz, Windows Server* 2008 x64.
Network Conguration: Cisco Catalyst* 6509, Intel 82598 10 Gigabit Controller Connected @ 10 Gbps.
Storage: Wintarget* iSCSI Soft Target connected @ 10 Gbps.
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