Yet Another IT Professional Blog

Server 2016 is out and although it's still a baby, I've decided to slowly put it in production as a secondary storage/backup server. I was testing on a Dell PowerEdge T320 server with 10GB & 1GB nics and other than some iscsi configuration, everything else was at default settings on the system. Please note that this is a physical machine and not a VM! Server 2016 is great and I have to admit, the experience has been really good so far... I'm sharing one of the difficult issues I had

This is a storage performance report that I have done on 3 different storage types. I was curious to see the performance difference between different types of iSCSI storage units. I wanted to share the results with others because when I wanted to compare my results with others, I was surprised to see that there are a lot of people discussing about storage technologies and all but no one is actually sharing their benchmarks openly. Because, a storage benchmark can vary a lot depending on your environment, I am going to list my setup so you can compare these results to your own environment as close as possible.