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March 7th, 2013 08:00

ODX transfer speeds

For those of you that have enabled ODX on your EqualLogic arrays, what speeds are you seeing? i'm a little disappointed so far - I'm only seeing about 200MB/s. Here is my configuration:

  • Server

    • Dell R310 
      • Latest BIOS
      • Onboard BCM5716C (2 ports)
      • HP 331T (4 Port) – two of these ports are used for iSCSI traffic

    Switches

    • 2 HP ProCurve 2910al, latest BIOS
      • Each switch is 1gb, 24 ports
      • VLAN 109 is set to Untagged for the iSCSI ports on both switches
      • Jumbo Frames is enabled on the iSCSI ports
      • Software flow control is enabled on the iSCSI ports
      • 10GB interconnect backplane between switches

    SAN

    • PS6100XS, 6.0.2 firmware (latest)

I'm testing by simply using Windows Explorer to copy at 45GB file. If I disable ODX by running the following in PowerShell: 

Set-ItemProperty hklm:\system\currentcontrolset\control\filesystem -Name "FilterSupportedFeaturesMode" -Value 1
I get speeds of 110MB/s and the transfer takes 410 seconds
With ODX enabled, I get average speeds of about 240MB/s and it takes 200 seconds (3 mins 20 seconds).
Don't get me wrong, that's a big improvement, but articles like this one http://i.dell.com/sites/doccontent/business/solutions/whitepapers/en/Documents/microsoft-offloaded-data-transfer-equallogic.pdf led me to expect closer to 400MB/s speeds with ODX. 
There are obviously other major benefits with ODX such as the near-zero network and CPU utilization, but I'm curious - what speeds are you seeing in your environment?