On the ESXi side, did you properly set up the vswitches and vmkernels for multipathing? If you don't, all traffic will go over the first NIC with the same subnet, never touching the second nic, thus negating any possible boost providable by MPIO. Read this: http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_gee...

2) Really crazy idea :) But should work. We've called such an approcah "FloppyNet" few decades ago :) OT: Crazy as it is, still very much in use, not typically in SAN's mind you but... :lol: I believe people call it "sneakernet" nowadays. :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakern...

Just a quick post, again no "proper" results to post or show yet, only subjective and limited testing as I'm busy with school for the next two weeks. These limited subjective tests are based on a few quick tests, major one being a simple file transfer from a fast file-server over SMB. All ...

I just want to note, at least in my limited google-fu research, Delayed Ack feature in ESXi is not the same thing as the naggle algorithm http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2009/09/a-multivendor-post-on-using-iscsi-with-vmware-vsphere.html I'm going to try this out myself(disabling delayed ...

Hi Max, What values should we use for XenServer 5.6 FP1? I'm currently experiencing the same problem with a RAID1 Mirror configuration on StarWind. Mirror goes out of sync as soon as data is written to the SAN. Chris Here's the thread with the working settings: http://www.starwindsoftware.com/forum...

Exams are coming up for this semester, and thus I haven't had much time to test/play with my lab. I will have a couple weeks between semesters(I'm doing a summer semester as well, so no summer break). Anyways, I did play around, after Anton's comment about how the local cache(inside the vm) was a pa...

Hi All, I'm a Mohawk College student trying to use star-wind in a similar lab environment(WS 2008 R2 clustering AND VMWare ESXi). I have ALSO tried openfiler, as well as MS iSCSI Target 3.3(from my technet account), Open-E, and NexentaStor. I've also looked at DataCore but haven't as of yet tried it...