Hello all, I am trying to fix my performance issue I am having, hoping this is the right place.
My setup:
2x HP DL320s w/P400 raid controller, 12x 300GB sas drives setup into two separate raid 5 array each (total of 4 arrays, 6 drives in each array), and 4GB of ram and 2.4Ghz intel dual core proc. 2x 1Gbps uplinks to switch
1x HP Proliant 2900 48GB ram, 2x 3.16 Ghz Intel dual cores 4x 1 Gbps uplinks to switch
I have the 2900 setup as my main ESXi host will all of my virtual machines on there. My 320s's are setup with ESXi then have freenas as their only virtual machines and I took the two arrays from each one of the 320's and created a datastore in esxi, meaning two data stores in total, one for each esxi host. I have setup iSCSI on both of the freenas's as a target with the device as the extent. Then on one virtual machine on my 2900 I have a windows server 2012 setup as the initiator for both of the freenas's.
My performance on this setup: 40-50 MB/s. A lot lower than I had expected. What is wrong with this setup? Too many layers?
I would just do freenas straight to the DL320s's but I was having issues getting the iSCSI to work. So I went the vmware then freenas route.
Any suggestions?
My setup:
2x HP DL320s w/P400 raid controller, 12x 300GB sas drives setup into two separate raid 5 array each (total of 4 arrays, 6 drives in each array), and 4GB of ram and 2.4Ghz intel dual core proc. 2x 1Gbps uplinks to switch
1x HP Proliant 2900 48GB ram, 2x 3.16 Ghz Intel dual cores 4x 1 Gbps uplinks to switch
I have the 2900 setup as my main ESXi host will all of my virtual machines on there. My 320s's are setup with ESXi then have freenas as their only virtual machines and I took the two arrays from each one of the 320's and created a datastore in esxi, meaning two data stores in total, one for each esxi host. I have setup iSCSI on both of the freenas's as a target with the device as the extent. Then on one virtual machine on my 2900 I have a windows server 2012 setup as the initiator for both of the freenas's.
My performance on this setup: 40-50 MB/s. A lot lower than I had expected. What is wrong with this setup? Too many layers?
I would just do freenas straight to the DL320s's but I was having issues getting the iSCSI to work. So I went the vmware then freenas route.
Any suggestions?