I changed the parameters and ran the test. I haven't changed the queue depth values. In my previous test I used a 60 second ramp time and 5 minute run time. I run the test on a second 40 GB drive with the file size set to 0 so it fills the entire drive. The results are slightly lower than the previous run. I results are the average of three runs.
| IOps | MBps |
Max Throughput-100%Read | 11387.75 | 355.8672 |
RealLife-60%Rand-65%Read | 3178.329 | 24.8307 |
Max Throughput-50%Read | 12059.21 | 376.8503 |
Random-8k-70%Read | 3338.76 | 26.08407 |
I read the 3PAR VMware Implementation Guide a second time and reconfigured my zoning. I have three esx hosts with redundant hba's. Port 1 on the hosts and controller 1 on the 3PAR connect to a qlogic 5800v (sanbox1). Port 2 on the esx hosts and controller 2 on the 3PAR connect to a second qlogic 5800v (sanboox2). I have a windows 2008 server outside my virtual environment with redundant hba's connected in the same way: port 1 to sanbox1, port 2 to sanbox2. The 5800v switches are stackable, but they are not connected to each other.
Is this configuration and zoning correct, I've attached files with the zoning config from each switch. I believe I've done the zoning correctly but a second opinion would be helpful. The Implementation Guide says the supported fabric zoning relationship in a multi host to one storage server is where an individual zone must be created between each host server hba and the inserv server port, which is what I did.
Thank you for your help.
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