Hi John,

The main considerations are really the versions. SSRS 2008 deployment for example is quite different from SSRS 2005, the principle remains the same but there are additional steps in...

To clarify my previous attempt to help.

My point in response to the original point raised regarding use a 'shared' SAN in a mission critical production environment, where potential configuration changes...

Sounds like the SAN is most likely to be the culprit. Is the SAN shared? Is it administered within your control?

SAN is a 'storage area network', which is great for...

Stalled IO is certainly relative to disk I/O.

I've hacked around this in the past by moving the TEMPDB to another physical location, this is also a worthwhile performance consideration...

Hi Just a thought...

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms177571.aspx

I recall a similar problem once where I was unable to attain a 0% defragmentation on a rather large database and the MSDN link provided...