Lab - Datastore & iSCSI config

Physical layout
FastArray01 & FastArray02
  • Disks: 8x 2.5" 73GB 15k SAS (IBM)
  • Card: PERC6i w. BBU kit (PCIe x8)
  • RAID level: RAID10
  • FastArray01 size: 292GB (raw)
  • FastArray02 size: 200GB (raw)
  • FastArray03 size: 92GB (raw)
LargeArray01 & LargeArray02
  • Disks: 4x 3.5" 1TB 7.2k SATA (WD)
  • Card: PERC5i (PCIe x8) (will try to get BBU working)
  • RAID level: RAID10
  • LargeArray01 size: 1500GB (raw)
  • LargeArray02 size: 500GB (raw)
Logical layout
Storage service
  • iSCSI provided over two Intel PRO1000MT quad NICs
  • Local storage (FastArray03 & LargeArray02) for home VMs
VLANs
  • VLAN50 - for LabSite1 iSCSI storage
  • VLAN60 - for LabSite2 iSCSI storage
  • VLAN 200 - for 'home' iSCSI storage
iSCSI notes
  • iSCSI target for each array
  • CHAP security
VSAs to test
  • Open-E DSS v6 (iSCSI and FC)
  • HP Lefthand P4000 (iSCSI only)
  • FalconStor NSS (iSCSI and FC)
  • NetApp ONTAP8.0
  • EMC Celerra
  • NexentaStor (FC plugin available)
  • Starwind (via 2008 R2)
  • Openfiler
  • Solaris ZFS
Tests to run
  • SQLio
  • Random/sequential transfer speeds
  • ?

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