EqualLogics Latency Update
After spending some time wading through a lot of stats and figures and checking the configuration on all the switches we have partly resolved the problem at our most badly affected site. This always seemed to have extra issues as the problems seemed sporadic and didn't follow the same pattern we saw at other sites. We traced to the problem to two ports that were connected in to the second newer EqualLogic unit. These were showing a number of errors on the switch end. Shutting down these two ports stopped all the latency emails we were getting and now we are just getting the normal pattern were a number of servers all email about latency at the same time rather than random emails from different servers. I have yet to visit the site and ascertain whether it is a problem with the switch, controller or the patch lead. But it just goes to show that if you start at one end and work your way through the path, make sure every setting is what it should be and above all never assume any