Just to follow up, I tested the network and it is working good. What made it work great in my estimation was I took it off a VMware hardware iscsi and moved it to VMware's software initiator. Now it gets 15,500 iops and 60MB/s write speed. :) That seems great for this old server bought in 2004. Any ...
I am mighty impressed with the Starwind tests I started doing last week. On an old server with RAID5 I was pushing 2000 IOPS and getting 10-40MBps via iSCSI when I used Windows iscsi initiator. I connected to the lun via my Windows 7 workstation and using IOMETER, was able to get those rates. I have...