Posts Tagged ‘limiting blocksizes’
Speeding up your storage array by limiting maximum blocksize
August 23rd, 2011 | 
Author: Recently I got an email from a dear ex-colleague of mine Simon Huizenga with a question: “would this help speed up our homelab environment?”. Since his homelab setup is very similar to mine, he pointed me towards an interesting VMware KB article: “Tuning ESX/ESXi for better storage performance by modifying the maximum I/O block size” (KB:1003469). What this article basically describes, is that some arrays may experience a performance impact when very large storage I/O’s are performed, and how limiting the maximum sizes of I/O blocks might improve performance in specific cases.
Posted in Storage, VMware | 
Tags: 1003469, ESX, ESXi, KB 1003469, limiting blocksizes, san, speeding up, storage array, VMware, vSphere | 
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