I mean, really.what use is it? What a bummer. I'm kind of thinking of returning it now. However, there is no way I would install this NAS at a client site, even a small one. I'm already hesitant about installing direct attached SATA-II drives at any client sites - maybe I might in a RAID-10 configuration. I had kind of hoped that the NAS in a RAID-10 configuration would significantly outperform my direct-attached SATA drives (on an HP E200i card, by the way). This kind of answers my questions.negatively, I'm sad to say. So I expect a slight performance hit.ĮVEN STILL, my own SATA drives waaaaaaay outperform the ix4-200d NAS, which had nothing at all running on it, other than my little XP VM. There's nobody logged on, and these servers aren't doing very much if anything - but they are turned on and Exchange 2007 is handling a little email traffic. Additionally, there is an SBS 2008 server running, as well as a Windows Server 2008 TS and a Windows Server 2003 TS. Not RAID-0 or RAID-10, just plain old RAID-1. Bear in mind now, that my direct-attached drives are 7,200 RPM SATA-II setup in a RAID-1 configuration, so I'm not expecting them to be that fast.
I just did the same test, on that little XP VM, which I moved back over to direct-attached storage on the ESXi server. Okay, this is starting to really depress me. This is a domain controller (DC) after all! Sorry if this last bit is off topic. Then do I just "add" it as a VM? What about when it askes me "Did you move or copy?"Does it matter, as long as I leave the old one off. Is that the way to do it, by the way? Just "copy" from datastore to datastore? It's about 160GB. Next, I think I'll copy my own SBS 2008 server onto the NAS datastore. I installed HD Tune and got the following results (see attached screenshot): It has an 8GB "HDD" with about 1.40GB unused. I straight COPIED an XP VM that I had handy. I put it on a different IP scheme and subnet from the other NIC (which I'm using to manage the NAS and do backups, etc.) just to be sure. In fact, no switch, just a Cat6 cable directly from the Intel PRO 1000 to the 2nd port on the NAS.
I added a dedicated NIC for the NFS (Intel PRO/1000 GT PCI). I setup an NFS share on the NAS and attached it to my ESXi server, a Dell Vostro 400 Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.40GHz with 8GB RAM. A new message was posted in the thread "Iomega StorCenter ix4-200d NAS Server performance?":
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