Open-E Test Installation

Hello

I need to test iscsi Open-E Solution to replace an old SAN.
This is my configuration and my test and i ask your advice.

All firmware are up-to-date.


OPEN-E Server
Dell PE 2950, 16GB RAM, 8 cores
Open-E is installed on PERC5i, RAID 1, SATA 7k 250GB drive

my SAN test array is installed on PERC6E with Dell MD1000
RAID 10, 4 x 146GB SAS 15K drive
array param : write back + adaptative read ahead + stripe 256KB

2 NIC broadcom 1GB for MPIO (each on different subnet)


Esxi 5 host
Dell PE2950, 16GB RAM, 8 core
Esxi 5 is intalled on Local Raid1 146GB SAS 15k drive (hosting vm vswap)

2 NIC broadcom 1GB for MPIO, RoundRobin 1iops (esxcli storage nmp......)
using broadcom nic iscsi adapter


Others

2 switches 1GB netgear GS716T
VM test : windows 2008 r2 datacenter + vmtools + 2 cores + 4GB RAM
no jumbo frame


iometer 2006 results

Max Throughput-100%Read
6680 IO/s, 215 MB/s, 8.6 ms

RealLife-60%Rand-65%Read
1472 IO/s, 11.51 MB/s, 38.6 ms

Max Throughput-50%Read
7879 IO/s, 246 MB/s, 7.4 ms

Random-8k-70%Read
1446 IO/s, 11.30 MB/s, 39.2 ms



Thanks

Where are your questions??

Hello

"This is my configuration and my test and i ask your advice."

is my configuration right ?

are these performances correct for this hardware/configuration ?

is there some tips/hints to know for open-e beginners ?

do i really need to change/adjust iscsi parameters (MaxBurstLength, ect...)

Thanks