Hi folks,

I'm running DSS v6 (lite) as a VM on ESXi 4.1.

Setup is as follows:
2x3GHz Xeons
12GB RAM
PERC 5i:
2x500gb SATA for VM Datastore's, RAID0, no read ahead, write back, 64kb block
3x1TB SATA RAID5, no read ahead, write back, 64k block

I've created a VM for DSS with the settings:
1 GB RAM
LSI Parallel:
8gb HD (installed to)

First, I tried formatting the datastore with an 8mb block size, and created a virtual hard drive of 1.8TB.

Results were:
50MB/sec write
3/4MB read

Next, I tried creating a datastore with a 1MB block size, created and added 8 256GB virtual hard drives under a software RAID0 array.

Results:
50MB/sec write
15MB read

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Any ideas on whats causing the slow reads?