With the recent experience I had on the deployment with vSphere 4 and PowerVault MD3000i, I found there are plenty of room you may able to further fine tune to improve the performance of the storage and virtual infrastructure. Before this, the initial deployment was done by default configuration without any fine tune yet, and I found that the storage performance looks  little bit slow. Therefore, I had decided to further research and fine tune everything we had to improve the performance.

Equipment List

  1. 2 x R710 with Intel 5530
  2. 2 x PowerConnect 5424
  3. MD3000i with 15 SATA Disks
  4. Software ISCSI initiator from vSphere 4

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