We received the new EqualLogic PS100E SAN this Monday. We immediately installed it in the rack and powered it up. Physical installation was easy, just like every other piece of equipment in the rack, we did have to reroute some cables though. I had to setup the new Vlan for the SAN and have setup the IPs for all the adapters. The software setup was very easy and I did the setup twice. I tried the Windows Setup application first and then wiped the configuration and setup from the terminal console. To be honest, I liked the console setup better, but I think that is because I use telnet fairly often. Either way, setup is a breeze. I setup the SAN with RAID 50 and there are 2 hot spare drives, so my 3.5TB SAN has a usable capacity of about 2.5TB.
I connected a server to the SAN using one its built-in adapters, but it turns out that the server adapter does not support Jumbo frames and was very slow at file transfers. I will be purchasing new NICs that have TOE (TCP Offload Engine) and Jumbo frame support shortly. I will also take Alacritech up on their offer of trying one of their NICs versus an Intel or HP NIC that has TOE. Has anyone else done performance testing on TOE NICs on their SAN?
I am attaching a couple pictures of the SAN, racked and ready.
We have had great luck with Intel 1gb NIC cards with jumbo frames and with Qlogic iSCSI HBAs and EqualLogic. For most of our systems, using the NIC has not caused high CPU problems.
Posted by: Tony Wyland | April 18, 2007 at 12:38 PM
Why would it take FOUR hours on the phone with Microsoft. Why does it always take so long???
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