Thanks for all the ideas, helps, etc. Mark
From: Miller Bonnie L. [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 7:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IOPS's calculations When we were planning for our SAN and VM conversion/migration, the Microsoft engineer we worked with had us collect information on our servers about usage using the MAPs tool. Looks like it's still around-not sure if it would do what you need: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=7826 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb977556.aspx If you are a Dell shop, their new dpack tool is nice too, but was still in beta when we used it a few weeks ago-not sure if they've released yet. If not, you'll have to work with your Dell engineer to get the reports generated that you would need. -Bonnie From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 2:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IOPS's calculations The question is: I want to know what my different servers (no san, each with their own direct attached disks storage) is using (not what they are capable of, but what they are actually using/doing). Sorry if I was unclear to begin with. Mark From: Brian Desmond [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 2:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IOPS's calculations Your SAN should be able to produce these numbers. Thanks, Brian Desmond [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> w - 312.625.1438 | c - 312.731.3132 From: Reimer, Mark [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 2:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: IOPS's calculations Hi folks, Thanks for all your help in the past. Looking at setting up a SAN. From my research, I think one thing to be aware of is current IOPS (disk). There are a number of sites that will help you determine IOPS based on what hard drives (and RAID configuration). My question is: Many of my current servers are light use. The IOPS that these servers are capable of is much greater than what is actually being used. So, in order to more properly size the SAN, is there a way to determine working IOPS? That is, what is actually being used? I assume Perfmon would help, and will need to log over a period of time (I think a week would be about right, to catch most scenarios). But what counters, and how to analyze those counters? Servers are Windows 2003. Thanks. Mark Reimer, A+, MCSA Servers & Networking Admin Prairie Bible Institute Box 4000 Three Hills, AB T0M-2N0 Canada Tel: 403-443-5511, Ext. 3476 Fax: 403-443-5540 Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> www.prairie.edu<http://www.prairie.edu/> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
