Hi Toasters,

I just setup a iSCSI test environment and comparing the performance with a server's local disk. The target is the R200 (50GB LUN) with a W2K initiator, MS's iSCSI driver on 100MB NIC (Interl Ethernet NIC not iSCSI HBA). I used two different freeware tools (Roadkil Speed Disk v1.1 and IOMeter v200.7.30) and get totally different results.

iSCSI volume Random Read:

Roadkil - 30.3MB/sec

IOMeter - .06MB/sec

iSCSI volume Write

IOMeter - .03MB/sec

Roadkil - N/A on freeware version

Based on the Random Read numbers, it seems the two results are vastly different. Don't know which one depicts the 'true' performance for the iSCSI volume. Can someone recommend a tool you use before to benchmark iSCIS performance?

Cheers,

Marcus Bui AIM Investments IT Services phone: 713-986-9061 fax: 713-821-9524 email: marcus.bui@aiminvestments.com pager: 8773450839@archwireless.net

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