SIOC and Adaptive Queue Depth testing on iSCSI LUNs This is a guest post by Andy Grant. This is a continuation of the post Some Answers About Queues: LUN and HBA Queue Depth on ESX(i) Hosts. Questions arose about conflicting support statements for Storage IO Control and in an effort to further the investigation, I have performed […]
New feature in upcomming vSphere 4.1 – SIOC
Storage Input Output Control. One of the major improvements in the upcoming vSphere 4.1 is certainly the new storage IO control. (SIOC). With SIOC activated you can define QoS prioritization for the I/O activity on a single host or a cluster of hosts. Activating SIOC on your datastore, you’re able to prevent an individual VM […]
