resource usage & snapshot performance

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Hello,

Our company had the best results with Adaptec Unified Serial 31605 (better performance and RAID rebuilding time).

[winman]

Has DSS V6 changed as far as usage of multiple cores is concerned?

For instance, we have three XenServers that connect to our SAN. I am looking at upgrading from ISICI-R3 to DSS V6, and want to know if it will make efficient usage of the cpu's.

There are 22 VM's (Six servers and sixteen desktops) running on the three XenServers that will connect to the SAN by 10Gb ethernet. In addition there are about twelve desktops that are not virtualized that will connect to the VM Servers.

You speak of users, but I'm not sure how that translates for us. The three servers are the only machines that connect to the SAN, and feed the data to the VM's.

The reason I ask is I am looking to find out if a Dell 2950III with Dual Quad core Xeons and 16GB Ram is overkill. If so, I'll look for something that's a bit cheaper.

Thanks,

winman