iSCSI SAN Software Intel and Microsoft test iSCSI
Microsoft and Intel perform a test and get 1 Million IOPS with iSCSI
Microsoft and Intel achieved 1 Million IOPS in a test at Intel labs from bi-directional average transmit-and receive I/O operations per second (IOPS) at block sizes of 512 bytes, without proprietary iSCSI offloads.
Shown in Figure 1, this result using 10GbE Intel Ethernet Server Adapters and Intel Xeon processor 5500 series-based servers represents new levels of iSCSI performance. This level of performance, attained using the native iSCSI initiator in Windows Server 2008 R2, is approximately twice that achieved using previous-generation solutions.
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TechNet Webcast: Maximizing Hyper-V iSCSI Performance with Microsoft and Intel (Level 200)
Intel and Microsoft solutions give IT organizations the means to maximize the value of iSCSI as they implement storage area networks (SANs). In this webcast, we explore how the combination of Intel Ethernet Server Adapters, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2, and Intel Xeon processor 5500 series-based servers provide an optimized, integrated solution that delivers excellent iSCSI connectivity using a Microsoft native iSCSI initiator.Topics we discuss include:
- Powerful enhancements to the Windows Server iSCSI initiator in Windows Server 2008 R2.
- New benchmark performance results of Hyper-V and Windows Server 2008 R2 with Intel Ethernet Server Adapters.
- Advanced iSCSI acceleration features in Intel Ethernet Server Adapters and how they work with the native iSCSI support in Windows Sever 2008 R2, and more.
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Intel Community Blog: 1,000,000 IOPS with iSCSI - That's Not a Typo...
The latest Intel hardware for CPUs and IO along with Microsoft Server 2008 can deliver capability that only a year ago seemed a distant possibility. All Intel NICs ship (and have shipped for sometime) with iSCSI support built in, and Microsoft's native initiator support along with the increase of server CPU performance has made mainstream, ultra high performance network storage possible.The key takeaway is that performance storage over LAN through a native OS storage stack provides a lot of simplicity, consistency, scalability, and still maintains very good performance. In fact, as discussed on the webcast, one million IOPS is more than any application really needs today, but tomorrow may be here sooner than we think. As storage growth continues, the ability to standardize the datacenter on common, low cost interconnect that has a consistent manageability structure is increasing valuable to IT. The knock on iSCSI storage has always been that Ethernet isn't the ideal protocol from a performance perspective but iSCSI seems to be rising to challenge at hand.
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