DELL EqualLogic general recommendations for VMware vSphere ESXi

Bellow are eight major recommendations for DELL EqualLogic implementation with vSphere ESXi:

1. Delayed ACK disabled
2. LRO disabled
3. If using Round Robin, set IOs to 3
4. If  ENTERPRISE or ENTERPRISE+ license and ONLY with Enterprise/Enterprise+  install MEM 1.1.2
5. Extend login_timeout to 60 seconds.
6. Don’t have multiple VMDKs on a single Virtual SCSI controller.  (major cause of latency alerts)
7. Align partitions on 64K boundary
8. Format with 64K cluster (allocation unit) size with Windows