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Written by Scott Herold
Tuesday, 25 March 2008
After reviewing a comment on my previous post from Erik Bussink I decided to better test my iSCSI solution as I wasn't overly satisfied with what I was seeing. I ran a few rounds of one of my favorite basic I/O write tests #dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test.log bs=1024k count=1000. This command showed my that my throughput absolutely sucked on this relatively beefy system. I was pushing only about 15-17 MB/Sec on a controller and drives that should be able to perform significantly better than that.
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Written by Scott Herold
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
I was able to finally build my iSCSI server a while back and wanted to highlight some of the details of this particular system. I wanted to try to do something unique with this configuration that would help to support a higher-end workload than a typical server.
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Written by Administrator
Thursday, 06 December 2007
I have resurrected this old article from the previos VMguru website that was writty by Jason Mattox from Vizioncore. I will also be reformatting and republishing other previously written artciles tonight and throughout the weekend. Jason has provided the following information for people looking to use some of the low-cost storage alternatives available in VI3. This particular setup uses a Windows machine and Windows Services for UNIX to create an NFS share that can be mounted to an ESX host for Virtual Machine, Template or ISO storage.
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