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.
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.
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 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.