B230 Bare-metal Windows 2008 R2 and IBM XIV

[Tom_Lowrie]

If anyone has gotten the disk perfomance between the bare-metal windows server and an XIV working would you kindly share how?

Thanks,

Tom

[Tom_Lowrie]

We are experiencing the same performance issues using VMWare 5.0.

It has been suggested we change from the M81KR VIC to the M772KR-Q CNA.

[Robert Burns]

Tom,

When you say disk performance, I would assume this local disk. If you're referring to remote LUN performance that's a different story.  Since you're talking about swapping the CNA I take it you're referencing an FC Storage LUN - correct?

Can you give more specifics on the performance #'s you're seeing? Some benchmarks would really help.

Swapping the VIC for the 2nd Gen Qlogic CNA is only giving you a faster FC ASIC (8Gb/s vs. 4Gb/s on the VIC).  This wouldn't account for your issue as you say there's a difference between bare metal and Hypervisors when using the VIC...

Other details we need:

-Version of UCSM (including CIMC, BIOS and adapter FW versions)

-OS Driver versions (fnic & enic)

Regards,

Robert