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ESXI iSCSI issue / tuning ?

Hello

Pretty new to ESXI / iSCSI so please bear with me Smiley Happy

I've setup a test rig with a bare metal FreeNas providing iSCSI storage to an ESXi server.

The iSCSI networking is done via a direct cable (no switch / VLAN) with two Intel I350 Gigabit NIC

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I created and fairly basic Windows VM and started to play around. Things seemed initially ok but as soon as I got into (relatively) heavy I/O (extracting a zip !) I get errors on the windows machine.

Looking into the ESX logs I see messages such as

Device

t10.FreeBSD_iSCSI_Disk______90b11c5173500-

00_________________ performance has

deteriorated. I/O latency increased from average

value of 5350 microseconds to 964280

microseconds.

warning

07/07/2013 13:52:03

win-cmsvugj19gc.nest.local

Nothing obvious reported on the FreeNas side, though.

Any idea / suggestion how to diagnose this ?

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http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsphere4/r41/vsp_41_iscsi_san_cfg.pdf Check this link.. might be useful.. But it most probably cos of the array you are using here..

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