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I want to build a typical small business network using the VI3 Standard Acceleration Kit and a 2-node VSA cluster. I plan to have the VSA nodes be dedicated hardware, while the ESX nodes are separate hardware servers.
VSA Nodes: 2 Dell PE2950's running 6 250GB SATA drives in RAID5. ESXi on that, then VSA on that. The two VSA's will be clustered. Most likely there will only be 1 to 3 volumes, all with 2-way rep.
The 2 ESX nodes will be Dell PE1950's running two 80GB SATA drives and ESX Standard.
The switching will be a pair of Dell PowerConnect 5424 Gigabit swtiches. Dell says they are iSCSI optimized, whatever that means.
I plan to have the following workload:
40 users.
All servers are Windows 2003 Standard
1 domain controller
1 Exchange 2007 server
1 light use SQL server
1 file/print server
2 more miscellaneous light light servers
Is it legitimate to expect adequate performance from this setup when its all SATA? Need more info?
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Supreme Being
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That seems like a reasonable configuration. Given that config you should be able to support the load you mention on the SATA based system.
I'd expect ~500 IOPS out of those SATA VSA in RAID 5 with 2 way replication across the VSA.
This all assumes that you have the BBU for the RAID controllers though. Without that performance will be poor.
Adam C
Product Manager
LeftHand Networks
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