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We have changed the following values on the VMWare and Freenas side on the interfaces that service the iSCSI connection: We have been doing some optimizations on the iSCSI LAN connections.
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Second test: Windows XP running in iSCSI – LAN optimized You can compare or post your results from this test with other VMWare users on this site: VMWare Unofficial Storage Performance thread.Ī first run of the test within our Windows XP installation shows the following, promising values:Ī good first run! As we have installed Freenas, VMWare and the virtual machine without any additional configuration, optimization or tweaking what so ever, we think there is room for improvement. To get a good impression of the performance, we installed IOMeter (2006.07.27) and ran the unofficial but generally accepted VMWare Performance test using the 8GB test file from VMKTREE.ORG. So the complete virtual machine is stored on and running from this iSCSI datastore. This ‘slice’ will be our first iSCSI disk in VMWare 5.Īfter attaching the disk to VMWare, we installed Windows XP on our vMWare server, using the iSCSI storage as datastore for this virtual machine. We wanted to take it easy on the first test, so we configured the Freenas server to use iSCSI and configured a 250GB ZFS Volume on top of our ZFS RAID.
We are ready to go! First test: Windows XP running on iSCSI We attached the second gigabit LAN interface of the Freenas storage and the VSphere server to this switch to create a simple iSCSI LAN.
The switch is capable of Jumbo Packets (up to 9,720 bytes), but we will not be using it (yet!). This little switch will be our first link between the ESXi/VSphere server and the Freenas storage. We installed an internal 2GB USB stick in the D元60 and installed VMWare VSphere 5 (aka ESXi 5) on the box and configured or tweaked nothing besides the basic network settings.Īs for our network, we have purchased a small NetGear GS108 ProSafe 8-port Gigabit Ethernet switch. With this used hardware we have a dedicated test server we can use to put our Freenas Storage through all different kinds of test.