VSM LABS SCENARIO

UNDER EXAMINATION: iSCSI Storage Router

WHAT WE TESTED

StoneFly i4000 Storage Concentrator

• Logical volume management services
• Web-based GUI for storage provisioning
• Intelligent iSCSI storage packet routing for concurrent data and command processing
• Copy Volume makes an exact copy of a spanned, mirrored, or snapshot volume
• Create, detach, reattach, and promote mirror images of volumes.

HOW WE TESTED

• HP Proliant DL580 G3 Server
• Dell PowerEdge 1900 Server
• VMware ESX Server V3
• Windows 2003 Server SP2
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1
• QLogic 4050 iSCSI HBA
• IBM DS4100 Array
• nSTOR 4540 Array

Benchmark

• oblDisk
• oblLoad

KEY FINDINGS

• 10,000 IOPS benchmark throughput using 8KB Requests with Windows Server 2003
• 133MB/s benchmark sequential I/O throughput using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
• Leverage all StoneFusion mirroring features to create VM disk templates.