I have Dell Poweredge R620's running Vsphere 5.1 connected to an iSCSI Nimble CS-240 SAN. If you run SQLIO against the SAN it looks great, but if you run the attached SQL script, it does not run as well as the script author expects.
Nimble has looked at the SAN and the SAN network extensively and reports there are no issues.
The script author claims that a server running Windows native on hardware will run this script in about 3:00 minutes. I have tested in on my SAN and get 8:30 minute times. I have tested it on another system using a Dell MD3200i iSCSI SAN and have gotten 10:30 times.
I would be curious to see if you folks could run this on your hardware and get back to me on your time to run the script and a summary of your hardware. To use it, just create an empty DB and run it against that DB. I has not taken up much of my server and I have run it in full production with no ill effects.
Thanks