The disks actually have better performance on 10 GigE than 8 GigE; although I didn’t do the math myself.
ESXi 5U3 for me but I am using copper. 8 Gbps – 4 to each SP in a LACP @ 9K Jumbo. Cheap boss.
My backups are suffering now. LOL
I ran it before on a direct host, QNAP, EqualLogic and PowerVault and DAS. Seems about the same. My EMC runs faster so my VMs do too. Its a small difference an IT guy would notice.
If you have nice disks, at least a 1 GigE connection and some resources, you shouldn’t have any issue.
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From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Rob VanHooren
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 6:09 PM
To: observium@observium.org
Subject: Re: [Observium] san
josh> I have mine on EMC. Does just fine.
ditto (iSCSI). VAAI ESXi 55u2 vm's too; noop kernel elevator and etc other tweaks for the guests.
one on a Nimble (cached with violin), and another on a QNAP (cached with slc ssd).
bonded dual 10gigE +8k jumbo though. probably makes a big difference vs. 2 or 4G FC back-ended with creaky legacy FCAL spinners.
ymmv.
depends *highly* upon how well the environment is built for i/o ... which is likely why Adam has the wisdom to be wary & prefers DAS on a physical host.
Typogaphical errors courtesy of iPhone
On Nov 11, 2014, at 17:45, observium-request@observium.org wrote:
I have mine on an EMC. Does just fine.