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July 18th, 2012 01:00

PS6100XS hybrid array, IOPS/load

Hi.

I bought a Ps6100XS to drive our Citrix Xenapp volumes from, giving that the SSDs should provide great IOPS. I am not seeing any problems, but i am puzzling the rather low estimated IO that SANHQ says the array has.

Given that the array has 7 SSDs and17 harddrives, i somehow expected more than a maximum IO rate of 1365IOPS.

Is it an SANHQ problem (not fully supporting the newer arrays), or am i really seeing close to 100% load at such a rather low load.

 

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    Posted July 18th, 2012 04:00

    It's because the workload has shifted to scattered writes, since under the glitz it's 'only' a 7-drive RAID-6 array, so it has very limited sustained random write performance.  Notice also that the write workload shows up as *read* latency due to the caching.

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    Posted July 18th, 2012 08:00

    Well now almost all your workload is writes!  Can you post the disk load info (fig.7 on pg.16 in that doc)?

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    Posted July 18th, 2012 08:00

    Im not really sure that i understand the concept of scattered writes :-)

    I looked through the following document, that talks about especially VDI projects, on hybrid arrays:

    en.community.dell.com/.../2642.sizing-and-best-practices-for-deploying-vmware-view-vdi-with-equallogic-storage-by-sis.aspx

    the IO pattern of XenApp and VDI should be very similar.

    Admittedly they do not show the Full graphs in the report/commercial.

     

    Since my first post actually included a screenshot of mostly IO during the night, i have added a new picture below, that shows the IO over a day. 8 in the morning to 16

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    Posted July 18th, 2012 09:00

    Sure can.

    sorry im a bit limited on the resolution of my laptop, so i had to cut a few of the harddrives out, but the IO on them is the same more or less.

     

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    Posted July 19th, 2012 01:00

    That is odd, although the throughput had dropped by then none of those drives look more than 5 to 10% loaded.  Have you opened a support case?

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    Posted July 19th, 2012 02:00

    No i kinda wanted to hear peoples opinion before wasting support time on it :)

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    Posted July 19th, 2012 03:00

    Don't be afraid to use support - you've paid for it!

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    Posted July 19th, 2012 04:00

    I know, but my time is limited ;)

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    Posted November 20th, 2012 05:00

    I should open a support case, you're disk queue depth is way to high