ras2a wrote:
My last question is regarding 'average' read/write latencies for decent performance? Bear in mind, our SAN is using SATA disks running @ 7.2k,
For those hard disks, and particularly on the X1600 platform, what you are seeing is pretty good. Note that the RAID level has a very minor impact on performance on this hardware.
The X1600 supports a NIC team, but that will effectively operate on an active/passive basis.