iSCSI on 1GBe or 10GBe

[HPCP]

I would like to receive some fundamental feedback on where the cutt off is in the choice to connect a P45 Lefthand SAN over iSCSI in a VMWare environment. Currently the SAN is configured at 1GB but the end users do complain about performance. To finalize the plan to upgrade to 10 GB SAN Speed I would like to receive some feedback whether or not the investment will benifitial

Environment:

• Trading company with about 100 users
• HP P4500 Lefthand SAN
• 8 Virtual Windows servers on VMWARE, Boot from SAN, Pagefile on SAN
• 1 SQL server with Navision databases  (Multiple concurrent transactions)
• Microsoft Exchange server
• Thin Clients with Windows terminal server.
• Windows server versions are currently 2003 but will be upgraded to 2012

P.S. This thread has been moevd from Storage Area Networks (SAN) (Enterprise) to HP StoreVirtual Storage / LeftHand. - Hp Forum moderator

[Steven Clementi]

Sounds like you may have more of a configuration issue then a bottle neck.

How many VMwae Hosts?

How many Lefthand Nodes?

Without seeing/understanding your VMware and Storage environment and configuration, it would be hard to tell if upgrading to 10GB would simply "fix" user performance issues.