SpaceHonkey
Gawd
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- Jan 25, 2007
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Just curious on VCB backup throughput in the wild. I'm setting up a new environment and I'm not all that impressed with the speed. Average is 1.25GB/m, but fluctuates between .6 - 2.9GB/m. I'd be happy overall with 3+, but I know the system is capable of 5+ from the local file system.
Hardware:
IBM HS21 blades - 2 x 5440 Xeon w/16GB RAM + 4Gb QLogic w/dual HBAs
Brocade 4Gb switches
IBM DS3400 SAN with 12 15K 300GB SAS disks, 2 luns now, 1TB each. VM datastore is RAID 5, Backup lun is RAID 0. Also dual SPs, one responsible for each lun.
IBM TS3100 with 1 drive sled, again - 4Gb FC
IBM x3350 Backup/Virtual Center Server - yes VC and BE on one box. Small deployment so far, only two blades (hosts)
For software, VI3 including latest patched up ESX 3.5.x and VC 2.5.x. Backup Exec 12.5 with the VMware agent.
What kind of throughput are you guys seeing using VCB?
Hardware:
IBM HS21 blades - 2 x 5440 Xeon w/16GB RAM + 4Gb QLogic w/dual HBAs
Brocade 4Gb switches
IBM DS3400 SAN with 12 15K 300GB SAS disks, 2 luns now, 1TB each. VM datastore is RAID 5, Backup lun is RAID 0. Also dual SPs, one responsible for each lun.
IBM TS3100 with 1 drive sled, again - 4Gb FC
IBM x3350 Backup/Virtual Center Server - yes VC and BE on one box. Small deployment so far, only two blades (hosts)
For software, VI3 including latest patched up ESX 3.5.x and VC 2.5.x. Backup Exec 12.5 with the VMware agent.
What kind of throughput are you guys seeing using VCB?