Customer Derek Schwab on iSCSI performance

re: Customer Derek Schwab on iSCSI performance

Derek Schwab — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:38:15 GMT

I just came across this post and wanted to point out that I made a followup post regarding switching hardware. In short, we are using a Cisco Catalyst 6506 switch. More details, including the exact modules I'm using are located at http://www.derekschwab.com/2008/05/networking-for-iscsi.html

re: Customer Derek Schwab on iSCSI performance

marc_farley — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:16:32 GMT

He didn't say in his blog, so I asked him on his site.

re: Customer Derek Schwab on iSCSI performance

Customer X Factor — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:38:55 GMT

What networking product was this running on? Dell switch?

re: Customer Derek Schwab on iSCSI performance

Tom Sightler — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:05:45 GMT

If a vendor is really saying things like "you'll never see over 250Mbps with iSCSI" then that vendor is crazy. Our old fiber channel vendor told us we'd never be able to exceed 250MB/s which, assuming only a single array and two paths is probably true. Of course my counter point was that I didn't need to exceed 250MB/s in my environment to achieve my performance goals so why should I pay for more than that? They didn't seem to understand that point.