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November 21st, 2021 18:00
Poweredge r620 with perc h710 mini poor performance/problems
Hey there!
I have an Dell Poweredge r620 with an perc h710 mini as an raidcontroller.
The Server is equiped with 8x 600gb 10k SAS HDD's, 1x 1tb Crucial MX 500 SSD and another 1x 500gb Crucial MX 500 SSD. || Raids:1x RAID 5 with 8x 600gb 10k SAS HDD's | 1x RAID 0 with the 1tb Crucial SSD | (((1x RAID 0 with the other 500gb SSD)))
The 500gb SSD strangely randomly dissapeared one-day with the error-message "Disk 9 in Backplane 1 of Integrated RAID Controller 1 is removed", a few days later, however, it was recognized again, and it was determined that it was still 100% write-stable. <= This is silly, but not my biggest problem...
As soon as something is written to the other 1tb SSD the server has an iowait of 50+ and is only barely usable, in addition, the SSD is very very slow;
1gb write:
root@iotest:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/testfile bs=1G count=1 oflag=dsync
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 50.8903 s, 21.1 MB/s
2gb write:
root@iotest:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/testfile bs=2G count=1 oflag=dsync
0+1 records in
0+1 records out
2147479552 bytes (2.1 GB, 2.0 GiB) copied, 170.887 s, 12.6 MB/s
io-wait during the test:
2021-11-21 19:09:58 (0:01:18) - CRITICAL on CPU_IOWAIT (Min:7.2 Mean:43.0 Max:57.7): bash, io_wqe_worker-0, pvestatd
Here are some pictures of the configuration from the Raid-Controller etc (I hope you can understand what it says since it is in German :)).:
Controller-Properties:
RAID5 - HDD01 - Properties:
RAID0 - SSD01 - Properties:
I would be very grateful if you could help me.
Kind regards;
f.nmann


DELL-Erman O
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November 22nd, 2021 00:00
Hello,
Thanks for detailed infotmation. Your H710 mini firmware appears to be up to date. It may be necessary to update the firmwares suitable for the dell part number on the SSDs. If the SSDs you are using are non-certified, you may experience strange warnings, false warnings, or unexpected operation. In addition to this, there are people who use non-Dell parts without any problems that I see in the community. But this is a risk, first of all, some things to be done on the system such as mobo, controller, etc. fix firmwares have the potential to cause problems later on.
Also maybe it will be helpful if you take a look at this article "Configuring and Managing CacheCade Virtual Disks on a Dell PERC H710, H710P and H810 RAID Controller" https://dell.to/3oSDryE
Finally, if you are using a PCI SSD, you can check the firmware and the appropriate driver for your operating system under the solid state storage category. https://dell.to/3FFwibF
Hope this helps!