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March 14th, 2019 17:00

Best Raid Config on EMC ME4

We are testing out different RAID configurations and I am trying to understand why we saw similar sequential read/write numbers when we had the array configured as 3 separate linear disks vs one large OBR10 with 3 volumes carved out.  

I expected to see significantly higher throughput off the single array (while testing one drive at a time).

Dell EMC ME4024 SAN with 14 x 1TB SSD

 

3 separate linear disks:

  • Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 3640 MB/s
  • Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1887 MB/s

one large OBR10 with 3 volumes carved out:

  • Sequential Read (Q= 32,T= 1) : 3646 MB/s
  • Sequential Write (Q= 32,T= 1) : 1808 MB/s

 

Should we expect to see much higher IO on the large array?  Does anyone have any suggestions on what we might check?

 

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

 

Note: This is for a SQL Server install and we are looking at more than just sequential reads/writes.  I just wanted to simplify the problem for the forums.

 

Thanks

 

 

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March 18th, 2019 09:00

Hello daveg01,

Here is the link to our best practice guide for configuring your ME4 & SQL.  https://downloads.dell.com/manuals/common/powervault-me4-series-microsoft-sql-server-dell-emc-2018-3923-bp-sql_wp5_en-us.pdf

When you did your test with 3 separate linear disks how many drives were in each disk group?  

Please let us know if you have any other questions.

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