Re: [c-nsp] Packet-level iSCSI debugging

2014-02-03 Thread Mike Hale
Nick: We are not using Jumbo Frames or QoS yet, but we haven't seen any indication of packet drops caused by saturation of the links. The hosts and storage are primarily plugged into the 2ks, and we are seeing the issue across multiple ones. It does span multiple LUNs, and I believe they're

Re: [c-nsp] Packet-level iSCSI debugging

2014-02-03 Thread Blake Dunlap
No, but that's exactly the tool I would have suggested looking at to start with. -Blake On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Mike Hale eyeronic.des...@gmail.comwrote: Nick: We are not using Jumbo Frames or QoS yet, but we haven't seen any indication of packet drops caused by saturation of the

Re: [c-nsp] Packet-level iSCSI debugging

2014-02-02 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 02/02/2014 01:41, Mike Hale wrote: the utilization is well below 10gigs what you mean here is that the utilization is well below 10gigs averaged over the sampling period. Iscsi is sensitive to dropped packets, and it could be that you're dropping packets due to traffic bursts which are too

[c-nsp] Packet-level iSCSI debugging

2014-02-01 Thread Mike Hale
Evening all! We've having some ongoing weird iSCSI problems that we're trying to track down. Specifically, we're logging a huge amount of disconnects in our ESX hosts that connect to our EMC Clariion storage arrays. Our VMs are still running well despite this, but the sheer number of errors is