XavierMace
Diamond Member
Going out on a limb here hoping somebody can tell me if I've either done something wrong or if my expectations are wrong (gea you here?). I got tired of my noisy, power hogging Cisco switches, so I tossed the fiber channel out and went back to iSCSI. Multipathing is setup on both sides. ESXi host side show traffic leaving is balanced across all 4 ports very evenly and consistent with in a couple of percent. On the Solaris side side (storage server) however, it bounces around between load balanced-ish (30%/30%/15%/15%) to basically not at all (3%/3%/90%/3%). Looking at r/w stats, it's not balancing writes at all, just reads.
ESXi 6.0 on host side, Solaris 11.3 on the storage side. Quad Port Intel 1GbE NIC's on both, running through a dedicated GbE switch. Jumbo Frames enabled on both sides.
Host:
Storage:
Storage a few seconds later:
This link would seem to indicate I'm not the only person to have seen this behavior: https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1223905
However, I can't find any info stating this is normal behavior nor do I see any settings allowing you to set load balancing separately between reads and writes (which would seem silly anyways).
ESXi 6.0 on host side, Solaris 11.3 on the storage side. Quad Port Intel 1GbE NIC's on both, running through a dedicated GbE switch. Jumbo Frames enabled on both sides.
Host:
Storage:
Storage a few seconds later:
This link would seem to indicate I'm not the only person to have seen this behavior: https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1223905
However, I can't find any info stating this is normal behavior nor do I see any settings allowing you to set load balancing separately between reads and writes (which would seem silly anyways).
