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Re: Updated VMware / Home Lab setup. You have a really nice esx setup. So are you going to take the vcp exam or do you already have your vcp. I took a fast track class on 3.5 a few months back so it's time for me to try to get some type of lab together at home so I can prep for the exam. Or I could just use a couple dell 2950's at work to build a lab. I must ask the equipment you have cost a good bit of cash are you paying for this put of pocket or does your company pick up the tab |
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| All of this has been out of pocket. Believe it or not though this setup of 4 ESX servers and one openfiler box has only set me back a little over $3000. I sold my first Dual Core Dual Proc ESX box for about $1200 so the new servers only cost me about $1800.
You said you were using openfiler? My current tests on the Intel Q9550 with 8GB of ram and dual port Intel Pro 1000MT only gets me a max of 60MB/s on a VM over ISCSI. Have you been able to obtain at least close to line speed of GigEthernet? |
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| I have not been able to obtain line speed of gig and I'm running it on a dell poweredge 2950 4 gigs of ram and 6 300 gig 15k sas drives. I plan on doing more testing and tweaks to try to get the speed up. BTW what are you going to do about a layer 3 switch |
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| what type of speeds are you getting? While the ESX service console supports jumbo frames, the VMKernel does not. Meaning ISCSI on VMWare does not currently support JUMBO frames. There are a few tweaks you can run via command line to enable them on the vswitch and VMKernel.
Do your poweredge have ISCSI and TCP/IP offload engine? |
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| I was finally able to mess around with some settings and was able to get my intel adapter to hit 85MB/s. Im happy with that but im hoping for more. |
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