{"id":831,"date":"2008-07-10T00:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atumvirtwordpress.azurewebsites.net\/?p=831"},"modified":"2008-07-10T00:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-10T00:18:00","slug":"windows-storage-server-das-iscsi-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/2008\/07\/windows-storage-server-das-iscsi-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Storage Server, DAS, iSCSI target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Well, it is official:  We have our iSCSI target set up on our DL380 G5 WIndows Storage Server.  Our final specs ended up as follows:<\/p>\n<p>HP DL380 G5 Windows Storage Server<br \/>1 Quad-Core Intel Chip (2.2ghz)<br \/>2GB Memory<br \/>MSA 60 w\/ 12 750gb drives (9.6tb total)<\/p>\n<p>We configured the initial volume for RAID5 with 12 drives, no online spares.  We&#8217;re pretty good about watching our drives when they fail (and have never had two hit us at once) and replacing them right away.<\/p>\n<p>We set up the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windowsserversystem\/storage\/default.aspx\">Windows iSCSI Target <\/a>(formerly WinTarget) and it has been working fantastic.  The performance is <span><span>quite<\/span><\/span> acceptable for our environment&#8230;in fact, we&#8217;ve yet to see I\/O limits thus far, even with a number of VM installations going at the same time to an iSCSI target.  So far, things have worked out very well.<\/p>\n<p>I am also quite impressed with the performance of ESXi, too.  Despite the minor delay in <a href=\"http:\/\/unnetwork.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/vmware-esxi-first-impressions.html\">getting it set up<\/a>, we have been able to allocate an impressive number of VM&#8217;s utilizing minimal memory.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it is official: We have our iSCSI target set up on our DL380 G5 WIndows Storage Server. Our final specs ended up as follows: HP DL380 G5 Windows Storage Server1 Quad-Core Intel Chip (2.2ghz)2GB MemoryMSA 60 w\/ 12 750gb drives (9.6tb total) We configured the initial volume for RAID5 with 12 drives, no online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,64],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}