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тАО04-06-2009 06:11 AM
тАО04-06-2009 06:11 AM
I have some questions to do:
What are the differences between RAID 10 and RAID 0+1?
Which of they are the equivalent to VRAID1 in EVA?
When a device writes data to Disks in EVA, it do it in blocks of 128 KB(chunk) or in blocks of 2MB (PSEG) per disk?
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тАО04-06-2009 07:11 AM
тАО04-06-2009 07:11 AM
Re: Some questions about VRAID
RAID0+1: create two Stripesets (R0) across lot's of disks and then mirror (R1) those two stripesets.
R10 is IMHO better, because you can loose any disk up to half of the disks, as long as never 2 mirrored disks of a pair fails at the same time.
R0+1: if the first disk dies, then the whole stripe is gone, so the first disk from the other stripe dying will kill all.
so for R10 you have a higher probability of survival of several disks, however for both the guarantee is only 1 disk!
EVA VRaid1 thus is more a R10, because the data is mirrored first, then striped
chunk or PSEG: I'm not really sure, but I believe it was PSEG...
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тАО04-06-2009 08:44 AM
тАО04-06-2009 08:44 AM
Re: Some questions about VRAID
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Oscar
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тАО04-06-2009 09:14 AM
тАО04-06-2009 09:14 AM
Re: Some questions about VRAID
If you are looking for the maximum physical I/O size - that depends how 'clever' the firmware/hardware is: whether it can scatter/gather a single host write that is larger than 4 chunks and write it into a PSEG. If not, it will split it up into 128KB physical writes, because the EVA always puts 4 adjacent logical chunks onto different disk drives.
Again, only somebody with deep, deep insight into the architecture can tell for sure.
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тАО04-06-2009 09:25 AM
тАО04-06-2009 09:25 AM
Re: Some questions about VRAID
Does the block is divided in two 128 kB blocks in to different disks? or are situated in the same disk drive?
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тАО04-07-2009 01:16 PM
тАО04-07-2009 01:16 PM
Solution128KB of data is written to a mirror pair in the RSS and 4 pairs are striped together to get the 512KB stripe. The full 8 MB in an Rseg consists of 16 data stripes. The next 8MB of data will be written to the next RSS/Rseg in the Disk Group. Essentially the EVA is doing concatenated striped mirrors.
In your example (assuming block-aligned writes) a 128KB write will go to two disks and a 256KB write will hit 4.
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тАО04-08-2009 05:20 AM
тАО04-08-2009 05:20 AM
Re: Some questions about VRAID
Check this PPT for your understanding..
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тАО04-08-2009 11:26 AM
тАО04-08-2009 11:26 AM
Re: Some questions about VRAID
I learned some things that i didn't know
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Oscar