Hello guys,
I need some help regarding a issue:
So I have a setup consisting of a few HP ProLiant DL380 G5 servers ( 2 x Quad-Core Xeon X5470 + 24GB RAM) with dual-port HP FC2242SR 4Gb/s HBAs (running vSphere 4.1) connected to a HP EVA4400 made up of 24 15K 300GB FC disks.
The servers each have 2 NICs connected to a Cisco 2960G switch and connected to a dvSwitch inside vSphere.
The disks are grouped in a single DiskGroup on the EVA, and I have a 1040GB Vdisk (LUN) created with RAID 5 level.
Alright, now I have a VM with Windows Server 2008 R2 acting as a file server. It's virtual hardware consists of 4GB ram and 4 cpu cores and the LUN I mentioned above is mounted as a VMFS datastore to the host and devided up as a 40GB vmdk for the operating system (with LSI SAS controller) and another vmdk of ~1TB on a separate Paravirtual controller ...intended for actual storage of files. Both disks are setup as Thin Provisioning
And also it has a single VMXNET3 nic.
The problem is...that the file server performs very bad, it's about 10-12 MB/s for writes and 20-30 MB/s for reads.
I tested this by transfering ~2, ~3, and ~4 GB .iso files to and from the server.
I tried it from my workstation, other VMs & phisical servers...the performance is the same.
I also vMotioned the file server to other hosts....still same thing.
I figured maybe it's something wrong with the VM itself....so since I have another windows 2008 R2 VM residing on a smaller (150GB) LUN I did the same test by copying .iso to that..and the performance was the same. And I also did this to a linux VM ....same thing.
Any ideea what the problem is here....because that just seems extremely poor performance...it's like a lot slower even than a normal PC
Basicaly there's almost no traffic on the fiber-channel network most of the time...so it's not congestion or anything.
The EVA and FC-switches are running the latest firmware.
Please help.
Thanks,
