as an update to this. I realised the partner server had a different RAID card which was what was causing the poor performance. I totally forgot these were different and overlooked it when setting up this initially. I am now getting much, much better write performance, in line with what i would expec...

Thanks for the suggestions. Have not had a huge amount of time to play around with this setup, but did get a chance to have a fiddle with my NIC settings and that reg key. And got slightly better results with the last few of your suggestions. As of right now i cannot change the MPIO policy on either...

Hi, Ok, i was unaware that Teaming and VLANs were unsupported for Sync and ISCSI networks. I have thrown up a couple of 10Gig links between these servers now and run some additional testing with a fresh disk setup. Left: new 4Gig disk with the new "raw" links Middle: 400Gig disk (tested ye...

Hi, I am trialling vSan as a potential replacement for an aging equalogic i have in lab. Currently i have vSan Free setup on a two node failover cluster. i have a disk setup that exists between 2 4 disk arrays on each node (Raid 5). I set it up as per the powershell templates, no other settings were...