MSA 1000 Transfer Speed

[dewitte64]

I'm curious - I have an MSA 1000 with 14 146 gig drives configured into 3 raid 10 groups (4 each + 2 spares total). When I transfer a 30 gig file from the SAN over to the local Drive D on my DL380 -OR- from one of the SAN logical drives to another - it takes a LONG time in comparison to moving the same file through a 1 gig network connection to another machine. I've seen people say "Oh, my MSA 1000 seems slow" - but rather than say that - (1) is there a benchmark program I can run, and (2) those of you who aren't complaining - what kind of transfer rates are you getting? For some reason, I would think that a 2 gig fibre would get better transfer rates than a 1 gig network connection or even an internal SCSI.

[Cass Witkowski]

What is a long time. What is the time between the time of the two?

[Jerome Poudou]

Hi,

try the iometer utility.
this tool will help you to know how your disks perform using various type of access.

[dewitte64]

I tried a 1 gig file a few moments ago from the MSA to a local drive and it took a little over one minute. However, this was on a different fibre card (different) machine. The 30 gig file took 30 minutes via the network and about an hour on the MSA/local drive, but now I'm going to start comparing the two local machines as the test I just did seemed faster than the test on the other machine.