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D-MSS-DS-23 · Question #26

What is a Dell recommendation when connecting ESXi hosts to PowerStore?

The correct answer is D. Disable DelayedACK when configured using iSCSI. Dell recommends disabling DelayedACK when configuring ESXi hosts using iSCSI to connect to PowerStore systems. DelayedACK can cause performance degradation and connectivity issues in iSCSI environments. By disabling DelayedACK, the communication between the ESXi host and the…

Storage Design Principles and Best Practices

Question

What is a Dell recommendation when connecting ESXi hosts to PowerStore?

Options

  • AUse the default 32k host I/O size when using VMware NFS Datastores.
  • BConfigure a minimum of two NAS servers when using vVol Datastores.
  • CConfigure Round Robin Multipathing with an IOPS limit of 1024.
  • DDisable DelayedACK when configured using iSCSI.

How the community answered

(40 responses)
  • A
    15% (6)
  • B
    8% (3)
  • C
    5% (2)
  • D
    73% (29)

Explanation

Dell recommends disabling DelayedACK when configuring ESXi hosts using iSCSI to connect to PowerStore systems. DelayedACK can cause performance degradation and connectivity issues in iSCSI environments. By disabling DelayedACK, the communication between the ESXi host and the PowerStore array becomes more efficient, leading to better performance and reliability.

Topics

#PowerStore#ESXi connectivity#iSCSI DelayedACK#VMware best practices

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