New toy for the office for more iSCSI storage

[sboesch]

I ran out of storage on my Equallogic PS4000. It has 12 2TB nearline sas drives in RAID 50 that I filled up with my vSphere datastores.

I just purchased for work, a Equallogic PS6100XV with 24x 1TB nearline sas drives. I needed IO, so here we go!

You can see the specs from here: http://www.dell.com/us/enterprise/p/equallogic-ps6100xvs/pd

 

[MiniKnight]

You need to test that at home first right?

 

[sboesch]

You need to test that at home first right?

I wish I could have! I did have it on my desk in the office when I was configuring it. It has 4 nics on both controller modules. I setup multipath io on the ESXi cluster, let's put it this way, I saturate the 4 ethernet ports when I transfer from SAN to SAN, pretty dang close to 5gbs.

 

[MiniKnight]

Very nice. I would love to learn how to do multipath i/o on esxi. Can you do it in the free one?

 

[sboesch]

Very nice. I would love to learn how to do multipath i/o on esxi. Can you do it in the free one?

You sure can! It's pretty straight forward.