IP partnership performance best practices

A number of factors affect the performance of an IP partnership. Some of these factors are latency, link speed, number of intersite links, host I/O, MDisk latency, and hardware.

The following actions might help improve this performance. See IP partnership requirements for additional considerations.

If you choose to use compression and IP partnership in the same system, certain hardware updates or configuration choices might help increase IP partnership performance:
  • If you require more than a 100 MBps throughput per intersite link with IP partnership on a node that uses compression, consider virtualizing the system with SAN Volume Controller 2145-SV1 .
  • Use a different port for iSCSI host I/O and IP partnership traffic. Also, use a different VLAN ID for iSCSI host I/O and IP partnership traffic.
Parent topic: Configuring IP partnerships