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October 11th, 2018 03:00

md3400 latency issues

Hello everyone

I'm getting latency issue in my MD3400. I have 2 controllers but right now I'm running just with one because I thought controller 0 was broken, but the problem continues. Anyway, forget if I'm running with 1 or 2 controllers because the case is the same.

 

I use this MD3400 in a VMWare environment with a 3 ESXi cluster and 25 vm's connected with SAS cables and 12GB array controller.

From MD3400 everything looks fine but the performance in my vm's is crazy, sometimes I see 400ms disk latency in windows 20128 vm's. I really don't know why is happening but this case occur in every vm, windows, linux, whatever...

 md3400 performance

 

 I think is not possible to attach a screenshot so this is the performance:

Virtual disk: current io latencia(ms) 75; max 158;min 15

one of 6 disk 10k rpm: currentio latency 50; max 87; min 16

controller: current io/sec 530; max io 2058; minimun 262

 I feel like MD3400 is worthy for a 2 microsoft/linux server cluster but not for vmware enviroment with 3 esxi and 25~40 vm. Am I wrong? If I'm wrong what the **bleep** is happening with this MD.

 

Additional information: The disk group are raid 10

 

Thanks in advance

Regards

 

 

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October 15th, 2018 00:00

Please any dell storage expert could help me

Thanks!

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October 16th, 2018 11:00

Hello 12sdf345,

When you had both controllers working were your host cabled like what is shown on page 16 of the deployment guide?  What are you using for your multipathing?  We recommend round robin to use for multipathing. 

Please let us know if you have any other questions.

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