6210XS SQL Performance Benchmarking

Our enterprise recently acquired new arrays for a new ERP system. I am the lead analyst programmer on the project and I'm at a novice-intermediate level concerning SAN storage, virtualization, and SQL performance tuning. I need to get up to speed and in command of what to expect from this extremely new equipment and the best practices to test and manage it. Our current ERP is on HP-UX and Informix stack so this is alien technology compared to where we are coming from.

 We have a network services division that has been responsible for running the non-ERP side of the house using ESX and EqualLogic 6500's. This team is more experienced in general management of this equipment but has less time to dedicate to the new ERP project so I'm stepping up to help everyone get more confidence in the gear and educate myself about it. Whew. Lets get to the meat now.

setup: dedicated 10Gb iSCSI network with Jumbo Frames enabled. No MPIO set. Dedicated storage pools for the 6210xs, 6210x (10K SAS), and 6510 (7200K). All on 10Gb.

I'm using a tool called MS SQLIO to test the IOPS of the 6210XS. I used one of the default example test pattern from the "using SQLIO" doc.

nutshell: 6 minute test, sequential I/O,2 outstanding I/O requests, I/O request byte size of 256, and a 15 GB test file. Results were:

H:\SQLIO>sqlio -kR -s360 -fsequential -o2 -b256 -LS -Fparam.txt
sqlio v1.5.SG
using system counter for latency timings, 2343750 counts per second
parameter file used: param.txt
        file h:\testfile.dat with 16 threads (0-15) using mask 0x0 (0)
16 threads reading for 360 secs from file h:\testfile.dat
        using 256KB sequential IOs
        enabling multiple I/Os per thread with 2 outstanding
using specified size: 15000 MB for file: h:\testfile.dat
initialization done
CUMULATIVE DATA:
throughput metrics:
IOs/sec:   133.93
MBs/sec:    33.48
latency metrics:
Min_Latency(ms): 61
Avg_Latency(ms): 238
Max_Latency(ms): 1269

I performed another test using different parameters and had wildly different results:

H:\SQLIO>sqlio -kW -s10 -frandom -o8 -b8 -LS -Fparam.txt
sqlio v1.5.SG
using system counter for latency timings, 2343750 counts per second
parameter file used: param.txt
 file h:\testfile.dat with 8 threads (0-7) using mask 0x0 (0)
8 threads writing for 10 secs to file h:\testfile.dat
 using 8KB random IOs
 enabling multiple I/Os per thread with 8 outstanding
using specified size: 102400 MB for file: h:\testfile.dat
initialization done
CUMULATIVE DATA:
throughput metrics:
IOs/sec: 24122.61
MBs/sec:   188.45
latency metrics:
Min_Latency(ms): 0
Avg_Latency(ms): 2
Max_Latency(ms): 25

Novice question - this is obviously not a good result but I need to understand why my test is incorrectly configured or why the array is struggling to perform under these test conditions. Thank you for taking the time to read and respond.