<Responding to myself for benefit of the list> This looks like it was caused by the device mapping defaulting to a round-robin path selection policy. While I couldn't find any mention of it in the RedHat cluster documentation, I did see some MSCS postings[1] that said: Round Robin can interfere with applications that use SCSI reservations for sharing LUNs among VMs and thus is not supported with the use of LUNs with MSCS. so I changed the policy to "Most Recently Used" and was able to get sustained writes of 40MB/s and sustained reads of 100MB/s down one NIC. Regards, Greg [1] http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/storage/w/wiki/2671.aspx -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster