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Hi all
specs::
freenas
p4 / 1GB dell optiplex gx620
boots via usb
2x 500 GB IDE onboard conroller setup as softraid1 exported via NFS
dlink 1038 card (iirc)
onboard gig nic
esx
e6550/ 4GB
intel pro gig nic
onboard gig nic
boots via usb
datastore is the exported nfs share above
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I've just started on redoing some of my network as my old fileserver was struggling due to various issues.
I'm using this command to gauge speeds:
dd if=/dev/zero of=./testdd bs=1024 count=200000
My setup is a P4 freenas box and e6550 esx 4.1.0 box on a dell 755 (more details below)
The problem is I'm getting only about 1.8 Megabyte/s writes to nfs network mounted filesystems within the debian VM
I get approx 5MB/s when writing to the local vm disk (which is nfs mounted vmfs datastore)
If i mount the same nfs share on the mac I get about 14MB/s
Raw disk speed on the freenas is about 29MB/s
Gigabit network.
If i use openfiler and iscsi will i get better speeds?
How do I configure separate storage and data transfer networks ? i have the datastore mounted under 1 ip, but perform the tests on the other ip. How can i ensure esx is using a particular nic.
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specs::
freenas
p4 / 1GB dell optiplex gx620
boots via usb
2x 500 GB IDE onboard conroller setup as softraid1 exported via NFS
dlink 1038 card (iirc)
onboard gig nic
esx
e6550/ 4GB
intel pro gig nic
onboard gig nic
boots via usb
datastore is the exported nfs share above
-----
I've just started on redoing some of my network as my old fileserver was struggling due to various issues.
I'm using this command to gauge speeds:
dd if=/dev/zero of=./testdd bs=1024 count=200000
My setup is a P4 freenas box and e6550 esx 4.1.0 box on a dell 755 (more details below)
The problem is I'm getting only about 1.8 Megabyte/s writes to nfs network mounted filesystems within the debian VM
I get approx 5MB/s when writing to the local vm disk (which is nfs mounted vmfs datastore)
If i mount the same nfs share on the mac I get about 14MB/s
Raw disk speed on the freenas is about 29MB/s
Gigabit network.
If i use openfiler and iscsi will i get better speeds?
How do I configure separate storage and data transfer networks ? i have the datastore mounted under 1 ip, but perform the tests on the other ip. How can i ensure esx is using a particular nic.
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