VMAX: Higher than expected latency with certain series of SATA drives.

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Symptoms



SATA disks in the same disk pool showing greater than 40 ms response on both reads and writes.
 

SATA disks not operating in their expected performance range.

Cause

The drive vendor has identified several performance issues and have addressed them with new drive firmware.

Resolution

Dell EMC has released a drive Firmware that can be installed on the affected drives.  To determine whether a Firwmare upgrade is appropriate for your environment, contact the EMC Symmetrix Support Center or your service representative. Please quote this solution ID.

Affected Products

VMAX Series

Products

VMAX Series
Article Properties
Article Number: 000050216
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 30 May 2024
Version:  3
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