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тАО11-20-2002 11:06 AM
тАО11-20-2002 11:06 AM
Got a va7100. Will it help performance to stripe vg's across the 2 controllers? I was planning on creating 2 luns and striping the vgs. Does anyone have any good information on initial configuration?
Thanks,
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тАО11-20-2002 11:18 AM
тАО11-20-2002 11:18 AM
Re: VA7100 Config
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тАО11-20-2002 11:28 AM
тАО11-20-2002 11:28 AM
Re: VA7100 Config
Yes you'll get a performance increase, but I would caution you to also consider redundancy.
Do you have a plan to mirror the VG's LVs through separate controllers?
In your proposed layout if you lose one of the controllers or it's link - you'll lose that VG.
Rgds,
Jeff
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тАО11-20-2002 11:48 AM
тАО11-20-2002 11:48 AM
Re: VA7100 Config
Ideally to achive redundancy and load balacing you need to have atleast two contorllers visilbe tot he disk that form the vg and the vg created with altreante diska s primary and secondary . it is better not to ahve bulky vg's and we use aa maximun of 4 disks or like 32 Gb per vg . Also the best perfomance achived is if the lvol is striped acroos these disks and hte block size as required . we use Oracle so gernally that is 8K .
Manoj Srivastava
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тАО11-20-2002 01:59 PM
тАО11-20-2002 01:59 PM
Re: VA7100 Config
I'm in doubt that you will have great perfomance increase (but not perfomance loss)... if you would have VA7400 then yes. But VA7100 has only one Redundancy Group (RG1) and perfomance path for all LUNs created within VA7100 is Controller 1 (C1). Another controller C2 should be used for redundancy. It is because of internal VA7100 architecture. See http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x59525c7609e9d61190050090279cd0f9,00.html and http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x521006350fe2d61190050090279cd0f9,00.html . So I would create one big LUN with primary path through C1 instead of two ones. Anyway LUN's data will be protected by VA's hw and fw (RAIDs, checksums etc) very well
Eugeny
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тАО11-21-2002 02:25 AM
тАО11-21-2002 02:25 AM
Re: VA7100 Config
Usually, 2 controllers are meant for redundancy, not for performance increase. I.e., if one controller fails, you would still have access to the LUN through the other controller.
If you want BOTH, there is a way; through VxVM. VxVM offers dynamic multi-pathing (DMP), with which you setup your LUN with redundancy in the same way as before, but it access the LUN through both controllers at the same time.
You need a licence of VxVM to do this. Base VxVM (free with HP-UX 11i) does NOT offer this capability.
HTH,
Vince
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тАО11-21-2002 04:24 AM
тАО11-21-2002 04:24 AM
SolutionThe performance path is the most direct path that the host can take to the data in the array.
The performance path is always faster path in terms of data transfer rate.
In the VA7100, the performance path is always specified by the device file for controller 1.
Since the VA7100 has only one redundancy group and the secondary controller is used only for failover.
That is, the primary controller is always the most direct path to the data.
If controller 1 fails, the host will use the secondary path to controller 2.
In the VA7100, if data access through the secondary controller attempts, there's a performance penalty associated with that operation.
After all, it doesn't look good to stripe LUNs across both controllers for optimal performance in the VA7100.
Hope this helps you
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тАО11-21-2002 06:56 AM
тАО11-21-2002 06:56 AM
Re: VA7100 Config
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